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Production: Unidentified Frechen pottery
Brown salt-glazed stoneware jug or Bellarmine decorated with three medallions enclosing a coat-of-arms and the date, '1599'
Grey stoneware, thrown and decorated with applied moulded reliefs, coated with iron-brown wash, and salt-glazed. Of globular form with a short narrow neck and strap handle with tail. Under the rim on the front there is a bearded mask, below which is a medallion enclosing a coat-of-arms flanked by the date '15' and '99', repeated on the two sides.
History note: Unknown before the testator, Mrs Margery Thorne
Bequeathed by Mrs Margery Thorne
Height: 17.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1988-04-25) by Thorne, Margery, Mrs
16th Century, Late
Production date:
dated
AD 1599
: may be a little later than the mould which produced the date
Surface
composed of
iron-brown wash
salt-glaze
Body
Decoration
grey Stoneware
Accession number: C.4-1988
Primary reference Number: 75017
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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