- Museum number
- 1855,1201.207
- Description
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Stoneware baluster jug; with pewter mount terminal; lustrous brown salt-glaze; neck frieze - grotesque ornamental and geometric motifs around portrait mask; shoulder - frieze of stamped floral and perpendicular bar motifs bordered by concentric banding; central frieze: 3 oval roundels: 2 containing escutcheons of merchant marks and the other a version of the coat of arms of Burgundy; separated by lions supporting central roundel; urn and acanthus decoration.
- Production date
- 1595 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 9.50 centimetres (base)
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Diameter: 7.40 centimetres (rim)
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Height: 28.20 centimetres (max)
- Curator's comments
- Gaimster 1997
Jug
c. 1595
Applied with a frieze moulded with the merchants’ marks of the Raeren potter Winand Emonts and a member of the de Wall family.
Baluster jug with strap handle and turned base; remains of pewter lid attachment on handle. Dark grey stoneware, the surface with a dark brown wash under a salt-glaze. Applied around the neck with a frieze of strapwork ornament, in the centre a female facemask. Applied around the body with a frieze containing three oval medallions: a version of the arms of Burgundy (1) (L); a shield containing the merchant’s mark of Winand Emonts supported by crowned lions (C); and a shield containing the merchant’s mark of a de Wall family potter (R). Vertical gadrooning between floral stamps on upper and lower body.
H: 282 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 3359.
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, 53 and 136, for information on the potter Winand Emonts and the de Wall family respictively; van Beuningen, H. J. E. 1975, ‘Raeren en Lucas de Wael‘, Rotterdam Papers, 2, 1-4 on the de Wall family.
COMP: van Beuningen, H. J. E. 1975, ‘Raeren en Lucas de Wael‘, Rotterdam Papers, 2, 1-4, pl. p. 3, for jug with same body-frieze; Kohnemann, M. 1982, Auflagen auf Raerener Steinzeug. Ein Bildwerk, Töpfereimuseum, Raeren, 231, for body frieze; and 266, for neck-frieze.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Missing pewter lid mount.
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1855,1201.207
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BL.3359 (Bernal)
