- Museum number
- 1891,0617.7
- Description
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Stoneware 'Trichterhalskrug' or funnel-necked jug; broken off neck, filed to produce bottle-neck (ground down neck-cordon); transparent and brown salt-glaze; thick patches of off-white ash-glaze; frilled foot; decorated by 3 applied medallions: centre - angel appearing to female and male in early Renaissance interior; either side Samuel(?) astride lion, landscape background.
Description of the medallions after Gaimster (1997): The jug [is applied] with two medallions containing Samson and the Lion and another with Samson and Delilah.
- Production date
- 1560-1585
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 8 centimetres (base)
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Height: 18.60 centimetres (max)
- Curator's comments
- Gaimster 1997
The comment is for the two jugs 1856,0701.1609 and 1891,0617.7
Two drinking jugs
c. 1560-85
Jug (L) excavated in the City of London
Ovoid forms with frilled feet and ring handles. White stoneware with thick patches of off-white ash-glaze. The funnel-necks are missing and the neck-cordons have been ground down to facilitate drinking.
The jug (L) is applied with three roundel medallions moulded with rosettes surrounded by blossom and foliage; the jug (R) with two medallions containing Samson and the Lion, and another with Samson and Delilah.
H: 127 mm (L)
H: 186 mm (R)
BIBL: Gaimster, D. R. M. 1987, ‘The supply of Rhenish stoneware to London 1350-1600’, The London Archaeologist, 5:13, 339-47, fig. 1, no. 8 (L).
LIT: Hähnel, E. 1992c, ‘Zu einiger Siegburger Gefässtypen der Renaissance’, in E. Hähnel ed. (1992), 133-68, (160-3) for list and discussion of rosette medallions; Lipperheide, B. 1961, Das Rheinische Steinzeug und die Graphik der Renaissance, Berlin, 22; Eriksson, G. 1974, ‘Bilder från rehnska krus’, Kulturen (1974), Kulturen Museum, Lund, 33-48, (36) and Walther, K. 1992, ‘Die szenischen Auflagen auf Pullen und Trichterhalsbechern’, in E. Hähnel ed. (1992), 169-92, (176-83) on Old Testament biblical scenes.
COMP: Reineking-von Bock, G. 1986, Steinzeug, Kataloge des Kunstgewerbemuseums Köln IV, Cologne, 3rd edition; 1st edition 1971, cat. 174-5, 183; Ruppel, T. 1991a, ‘Siegburg, Aulgasse Nr. 8 – Die Ausgrabungsergebnisse im Überblick’ in A. Korte-Böger ed. (1991), fig. 5, for similar types found in the 1588 destruction levels at Siegburg. Hähnel, E. 1992c, ‘Zu einiger Siegburger Gefässtypen der Renaissance’, in E. Hähnel ed. (1992), 133-68, cat. 2025 (Motif 1b) and 2190 (Motif 4c) for rosette medallions (L).
For sources of designs see Walther, K. 1992, ‘Die szenischen Auflagen auf Pullen und Trichterhalsbechern’, in E. Hähnel ed. (1992), 169-92 (181), for medallions with Samson scenes (R), possibly based on an engraving in Sebald Beham’s Biblische Historien, published by Christian Egenollf, Frankfurt-am-Main, in 1533.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1891,0617.7
