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Production: Emens, Jan (Probably)
Brown salt-glazed stoneware tankard with a pewter cover, the sides decorated with scenes of Samson carrying off the gates of Gaza, the Sacrifice of Manoah, and Delilah shaving Samson's hair
Grey stoneware with a thin brown wash, salt-glaze, and a pewter cover. The tankard has a tapering cylindrical body with cordons round the top and base, and a strap handle with a wavy tail at its lower end. A convex pewter cover with an ovoid thumb piece is hinged to a mount attached to the top of the handle. The sides are decorated with three applied panels moulded in relief. On the right of the handle, at the top is a small figure, a mask, and foliage issuing from horns, over a trefoil arch under which Samson is carrying off the gates of Gaza; below. two nude boys support a rectangular panel bearing the words 'MANOH/SAMSON/13'. In the middle under a different version of the ornamental motif at the top, is a trefoil arch under which is an angel on a flaming altar flanked by a kneeling figures of Manoah and his wife, under which are the initials 'PR', and below, two lions (?) support a rectangular panel bearing the words 'MANOH/I VDIKA/.3.4.'. On the left of the handle, at the top is a seated devil flanked by horns , scrolls, and foliage, below which is a trefoil arch, enclosing Delilah and a man holding a knife to shave Samson's hair in front of a tent ,and a table on which is a ewer and a cup. Below a kneeling man and woman support a rectangular panel inscribed 'DIELILA/BEDREG/SAMS'
History note: William Mullins, 52 High Street, Salisbury; from whom purchased for £4 by letter of 16 August by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. The jug arrived in Cambridge 24 August 2022.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 29 cm
Width: 13.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
16th Century, Late
Renaissance
Circa
1567
-
1570
Raeren, near Aachen did not become part of Belgium after the First World War, and its stoneware is usually classed as German. Jan Emens (1540-93), one of the most prolific of the Raeren stoneware potters, was a member of the Mennicken family of potters and signed his work with the initials 'IE', 'JE', 'YE' 'IEM' or 'YEM' . A tankard of similar form including the wavy profile of the lower terminal of the handle, dated 1567, decorated with panels of Judith, Esther and Lucretia, is in the Louvre (inv. N 158).
The story of the Sacrifice of Manoah occurs in the Bible in Judges, 13, verses 19-20; Samson carrying off the gates of Gaza is in Judges, 16, verse 3, and Delilah ordering a man to cut Samson's hair is in Judges 16, verse 19.
Surface
composed of
iron-brown wash
salt-glaze
Cover And Mount
composed of
pewter
Base
Diameter 10.3 cm
Body
Height 5.5 cm
Decoration
brown Stoneware
Inscription present: situated within a rectangular outline
Inscription present: situated inside a rectangular outline
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label with a black line on the left, top, and right edges
Accession number: C.2033-1928
Primary reference Number: 73031
Old object number: 3887
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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