Jug: C.2024-1928

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified Frechen pottery

Entities

• Jug

Categories

• Stoneware
• Brown salt-glazed stoneware
• German stoneware

Description

Brown salt-glazed stoneware with applied bearded face mask and coat-of-arms

Grey-buff stoneware, thrown, with applied handle and applied moulded relief decoration, coated with iron-brown wash, and salt-glazed. The wash does not extend to the base all round, and has dribbled at the front. The bottle has an ovoid body which contracts at the top into a short narrow cylindrical neck with a cordon round the mouth. The small rolled handle has a spearhead-shaped extension at the lower end which rests on the shoulder. On the neck there is a clearly-defined bearded face mask, and lower down on the front, an oval medallion bearing a coronet over a shield-of-arms with the charge: tierced in pale (reversed): 1., a lion rampant; 2, per fesse in chief three pallets, in base, a hunting-horn stringed; 3 (in base) six roundels, 2 and 4 fessewise.

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

17th Century
Circa 1600 - 1699

Note

The arms are probably those of a town