- Museum number
- 1855,1201.210
- Description
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Stoneware baluster jug 'Doppelfrieskanne'; dark grey stoneware; brown iron wash; lustrous salt-glaze; turned base; pewter lid-mount, scallop-shell thumbpiece; neck frieze - inverted oval roundels framing grotesque masks; shoulder - grooved bars; foot, shoulder, neck - turned bands; body frieze - story of Susanna; inscription; date; monograms.
- Production date
- 1584 (on applied body-frieze mould)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 84 millimetres (base)
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Diameter: 66 millimetres (rim)
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Height: 231 millimetres (max)
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- Curator's comments
- Gaimster 1997
Jug
Applied with body-frieze moulded with the date 1584 and the monograms of the potters Jan Emens (‘IE’), Ement Pesch (‘EP’) and Engel Kran (‘EK’)
Baluster jug with strap handle and turned base; the rim with a domed pewter lid with scallop-shell thumbpiece (probably a replacement). Dark grey stoneware, the surface with a dark brown wash under a lustrous salt-glaze. Applied in relief around the neck with a frieze of oval medallions containing grotesque masks. Applied around the body with six scenes from the Apocryphal story of Susanna; along the base of the frieze the inscription: ‘DIT IS DEI SCHONE HEISTORIA VAN SVISANNA INT KORTE EIT GESCHNEIDEN IE 84 EP EK’ (‘This is the beautiful story of Susanna, carved in brief by IE, EP and EK 1584’). Vertical gadrooning around the shoulder and lower body.
H: 231 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 3366.
LIT: According to von Falke (von Falke, O. 1908, Das Rheinische Steinzeug (2 volumes), Berlin (reprint Osnabrück 1997), I, 22-3) the source for the Raeren Susanna frieze is an engraving by Konrad Golzius published by Bussmacher of Cologne in 1583.
According to Lipperheide (Lipperheide, B. 1961, Das Rheinische Steinzeug und die Graphik der Renaissance, Berlin, 44) and Hellebrandt (Hellebrandt, H. 1977, ‘Raerener Steinzeug’, in Steinzeug aus dem Raerener und Aachener Raum, Aachener Beiträge für Baugeschichte und Heimatkunst, 4, Aachener Geschichtsverein, Aachen, 24), the frieze is based on an engraving by Abraham de Bruyn, published in 1570.
COMP: 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, fig. 11, for jug with same body frieze; Kohnemann, M. 1982, Auflagen auf Raerener Steinzeug. Ein Bildwerk, Töpfereimuseum, Raeren, 217, for same body-frieze; de Bodt, S. 1991, Gedateerde Keramiek, Dated Ceramic Vessels. Household Pottery Marked with a Year from the van Beuningen-de Vriese Collection, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, cat. 14, for jug with same body-frieze, excavated at Raeren (inscription incorrectly transcribed).
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1855,1201.210
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BL.3366 (Bernal)
