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Production: Unidentified Frechen pottery
Brown salt-glazed stoneware with an applied bearded mask on the front of the neck
Grey stoneware, thrown, witha white applied moulded mask, and handle, coated with iron-brown wash (slip), and salt-glazed. The jug is ovoid with a short narrow neck and small loop handle with a longitudinal depression on the exterior. On the neck is a long-haired and bearded mask of unusual form, with a figure 8 impressed on the shoulder below it. The glaze is heavily mottled, the wash has dribbled around the sides, several areas have fired reddish brown, there are several large and small dents and scars, and on one side, a large heavily encrusted scar with smaller encrustations above it, acquired during firing.
History note: Nyburg, a foreign dealer, in Hanley Street, London (?), whom bought for £3.0.0. about 1896 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 32.6 cm
Height: 55.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century#
Circa
1600
-
1699
This is an exceptionally large example of a bearded mask jug or bottle (Bartmannkrug)
Surface
composed of
iron-brown wash
( or 'dip')
salt-glaze
Base
Diameter 18 cm
Decoration
grey Stoneware
Accession number: C.2023-1928
Primary reference Number: 73023
Old object number: 674
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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