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Production: Unidentified Frechen pottery
Salt-glazed stoneware with applied bearded face mask and oval medallion with three flowers springing from a heart bearing the Sacred Monogram
Grey stoneware, thrown, with applied handle and moulded decoration, coated with iron-brown wash, and salt-glazed. The jug has an elongated bulbous body contracting into a short narrow neck with cordons round the mouth, and a small loop handle. On the front of the neck is a bearded face mask in relief, and below it an oval medallion with a raised edge enclosing three flowers springing from a heart bearing the Sacred Monogram, IHS as IH joined with S over.
History note: Mr Morley at Cambridge, from whom bought about 1895 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 17.9 cm
Height: 27.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century#
Circa
1600
-
1699
Base
Diameter 9 cm
Decoration
Surface
grey Stoneware
Inscription present: I has a dot over it, S is joined to H
Accession number: C.2021-1928
Primary reference Number: 76575
Old object number: 679
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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