- Museum number
- 1855,1201.183
- Description
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Stoneware chalice or water pipe; cylindrical, baluster body on foot-ringed pedestal, surmounted by convex diaper-incised neck and cordoned rim; six spouts; wall hollow, interior wall with hole; rim painted in cobalt glaze and stamped with concentric band of cross-hatching; shoulder - perpendicular grooved bars alternately glazed in cobalt glaze; alternate applied lion masks and hollow 'pipe' terminals; body with applied frieze of Landsknecht soldiers; pedestal glazed in cobalt with banding and applied lion masks.
- Production date
- 1590 (on applied panel)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 10 centimetres (base)
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Diameter: 6.20 centimetres (rim)
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Height: 24.70 centimetres (max)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Gaimster 1997
Goblet with six spouts
c. 1590
Applied panel with the monogram ‘HH’
Baluster vessel on a turned hollow pedestal foot, with a convex neck and six ‘puzzle’ spouts. Dark grey stoneware, the surface with a dark brown wash and cobalt-blue overpainting under an overall salt-glaze.
Applied around the central baluster section with a panel frieze moulded in low relief with Landsknecht soldiers within an arcade (the columns with caryatids), the drum of one of the figures with the monogram ‘HH’; the neck carved with vertical diaper (Kerbschnitt); and the pedestal foot with applied lion-masks in high relief on central raised cordon.
H: 247 mm
BIBL: Bernal Sale 1855, Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Works of Art … of that Distinguished Collector, Ralph Bernal, Christie’s, London, 5 March – 30 April, lot 3184; Klinge, E. 1979a, Deutsches Steinzeug der Renaissance- und Barockzeit, Hetjens-Museum, Düsseldorf, cat. 99.
LIT: Hellebrandt, H. 1977, ‘Raerener Steinzeug’, in Steinzeug aus dem Raerener und Aachener Raum, Aachener Beiträge für Baugeschichte und Heimatkunst, 4, Aachener Geschichtsverein, Aachen, 9-171, 68, records the potter ‘JH‘ (1612). It is possible that ‘HH‘ may be his father or grandfather. Otherwise the monogram may belong to the Siegburg potter Hans Hilgers working c. 1569-95 (see von Falke, O. 1908, Das Rheinische Steinzeug (2 volumes), Berlin (reprint Osnabrück 1997), I, 127-36; Treptow, O. 1991b, ‘Miscellen zu verschiedenen Persönlichkeiten der Siegburger Ulnerzunft im späten 16. und zu Beginn des 17. Jahrhunderts’ in A. Korte-Böger ed. (1991), 103-12, (106-7).
COMP: Reineking-von Bock, G. 1986, Steinzeug, Kataloge des Kunstgewerbemuseums Köln IV, Cologne, 3rd edition; 1st edition 1971, cat. 212, for Siegburg Goblet of similar form (c. 1580) with pedestal foot and central raised cordon.
See O’Dell-Franke, I. 1977, Kupferstiche und Radierungen aus der Werkstatt des Virgil Solis, Wiesbaden, cat. F1-29 (pls 52-5) for engravings of Landsknecht soldiers published in the 1540s by Virgil Solis on which these figures are probably based.
- Location
- On display (G46/dc5)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1979 23 Sep-26 Nov, Germany, Dusseldorf, Hetjens-Museum, Deutsches Steinzeug der Renaissance und Barockzeit
- Condition
- Broken off sunction terminals.
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1855,1201.183
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BL.3184
