jug
- Museum number
- 1854,0303.2
- Description
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Stoneware 'Bartmann' jug; globular; dark grey stoneware; brown iron wash; overall patchy speckled salt-glaze; pewter lid-mount and handle sheath; 'Bartmann' mask; centre - oval medallion of merchant's mark, escutcheon; date.
- Production date
- 1599 (om applied medallion)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 7.40 centimetres (base)
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Diameter: 3.10 centimetres (rim)
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Height: 16.40 centimetres (max)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Gaimster 1997
Bottle
Applied medallion dated 1599
Bulbous form with strap handle. The neck with a pointed conical pewter cover with neck strap and ornate linked thumbpiece. Dark grey stoneware, the surface with a brown iron wash under a thin salt-glaze; streaks of wash on the lower body. The underside of the base with widely spaced wire-marks.
Applied on the neck with a moulded bearded facemask; and on the body with an oval medallion containing unidentified arms (a scroll with two swords points downwards between three flowers issuing, impaling six annulets; crest: two wings displayed joined by a bar between two molets of eight rays) and the date 1599.
H: 31 mm
COMP: unpublished mug with version of same arms in SMPK Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin (inv. F33352).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1854
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1854,0303.2
