jug;
bottle(after Gaimster 1997)
- Museum number
- 1853,1220.56
- Description
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Stoneware 'Bartmann' type jug; globular; overall mottled, thin, brown iron wash; speckled salt-glaze over grey fabric on upper body; underside of base with wire-marks; strap-handle, cordoned neck with 'bartmann' mask; centre - oval medallion, rose, crown, heart type.
- Production date
- 1650 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 9.30 centimetres (base)
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Diameter: 4.60 centimetres (rim)
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Height: 28 centimetres (max)
- Curator's comments
- Gaimster 1997
Bottle
c. 1650
According to the 1853 acquisition details the bottle was salvaged from the wreck site of the Dutch ship Haarlem, lost in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, c. 1648.
Bulbous form with neck-cordons and strap handle. Buff-grey stoneware, the surface with a patchy brown iron wash under a speckled salt-glaze; streaks of wash on lower body. The underside of the base with widely spaced wire-marks.
Applied on the neck with a moulded grotesque bearded facemask; and on the body with an oval medallion moulded with a crowned heart.
H: 280 mm
COMP: Holmes, M. R. 1951, ‘The so-called “Bellarmine” mask on imported Rhenish stoneware’, Antiquaries’ Journal, 31, 173-9, mask type VIII (pl. XXIV,f for example dated 1680); Green, J. N. 1977, The Loss of the VOC Jacht Vergulde Draeck, Western Australia 1656, pt i, British Archaeological Reports Supplementary Series, 36(i), Oxford, cat. GT825 and 834 for similar medallions on bottles recovered from the wreck of the Dutch East India Company ship VOC Vergulde Draeck (1656); a bottle applied with a variant of this medallion was excavated from the 1666 fire deposit at the Hangleton parsonage, Sussex (Hurst, J. G. 1963, ‘A mid-17th century group from the Parsonage House’, in E. W. Holden, ‘Excavations at the deserted medieval village of Hangleton, Pt 1’, Sussex Archaeological Collections, 101, 54-182, nos 255, 257).
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Chipped base.
- Acquisition date
- 1853
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1853,1220.56
