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Maker: Unidentified Westerwald pottery
Salt-glazed stoneware jug with incised decoration coloured in cobalt-blue, with horizontal bands and strokes on the neck, stylized flowers and a striped medallion below the lip, and on either side, a stem and spots
Grey stoneware, thrown, with applied handle, incised decoration coloured in cobalt-blue, and salt-glaze. The jug has an ovoid body contracting into a short cylindrical neck with a slight lip. There is a horizontal cordon at the level of the upper junction of the handle, which has a longitudinal ridge, and a hole on top for the attachment of a mount. On the front is an incised stylized floral spray curving around a striped medallion with a petal edging (perhaps a flowerhead), on either side of which is a stem and two spots. The lower junction of the handle is surrounded by a blue line with curved strokes projecting on each side, and a curl at the bottom. The neck has two horizontal blue bands above and below the cordon, and below that, a row of ten incised ovals filled in with blue. A short distance above the edge of the base there is a blue horizontal band. The underside of the base is inscribed faintly in a black substance '1697/A.n. D'
History note: Unknown before C.B. Marlay
C. B. Marlay Bequest
Height: 40.6 cm
Width: 25 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
17th Century, Late-18th Century, Early#
Circa
1675
CE
-
Circa
1725
CE
Possibly made in the Hohr-Grenzhausen area of the Westerwald
Decoration
composed of
cobalt
( as smalt)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Throwing : Grey stoneware, thrown, with applied handle, incised decoration coloured in cobalt-blue (smalt), and salt-glaze
Accession number: MAR.C.55-1912
Primary reference Number: 77381
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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