martincamp flask
- Museum number
- 1853,0311.1
- Description
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Martincamp flask; earthenware; gourd-shaped; partially glazed; flattened on one side; slender tapering neck.
- Production date
- 15thC (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 10.70 inches
- Curator's comments
- In a Spanish MS of the 15thC, and in a Flemish MS of the 16thC (Harl., 5763), bottles of a somewhat similar form are depicted on the ground by the side of a reaper.(Hobson 1903).
For further reading, see:
Pierre Ickowicz, "Martincamp Ware: a Problem of Attribution", 'Medieval Ceramics', vol. 17 (1993), pp. 51-60.
John G. Hurst, David S. Neal, H. J. E. van Beuningen, "Pottery Produced and Traded in north-west Europe 1135-1650", 'Rotterdam Papers', VI (1986), Rotterdam, pp. 102-104.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1853
- Acquisition notes
- Found in Newbury Churchyard on the west side, six feet below the surface. (Hobson 1903)
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1853,0311.1
