- Museum number
- 1893,0214.2
- Description
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Stoneware 'Trichterhalskrug' or funnel-necked jug (funnel-neck broken off); ovoid form; frilled base and transparent salt-glaze overall (Gaimster 1997: ash-glaze); 3 round applied medallions framed in blossom wreaths: centre - grotesque bearded mask, geometric scroll design and 2 putti; right - 'Liebespaar'(?) flanked by figure and child; left - 3 leafed plant and 2 profile masks.
Description of the medallions after Gaimster (1997): The jug is applied on three sides with moulded roundel medallions: with a three leafed plant, two leaf-masks (Blattmasken) facing outwards based on a design by Aldegrever (L); with a grotesque bearded facemask set in strapwork and flanked by two putti (C); and with two lovers flanked by Cupid and a Fool (R).
- Production date
- 1560-1595 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 7 centimetres (base)
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Height: 12 centimetres (max)
- Curator's comments
- Gaimster 1997
Drinking jug
c. 1560-95
Ovoid jug with ring handle, frilled foot and remains of funnel-neck. White stoneware with thick off-white ash-glaze.
The jug is applied on three sides with moulded roundel medallions: with a three-leafed plant, two leaf masks (Blattmasken) facing outwards based on a design by Aldegrever (L); with a grotesque bearded facemask set in strapwork and flanked by two putti (C); and with two lovers flanked by Cupid and a Fool (R).
H: 120 mm
LIT: Lipperheide, B. 1961, Das Rheinische Steinzeug und die Graphik der Renaissance, Berlin, 18; Schmidt, D. 1986, ‘Aldegrever und das Rheinische Steinzeug’ in Unna (1986), 35-44, (38-9); Hähnel, E. 1992c, ‘Zu einiger Siegburger Gefässtypen der Renaissance’, in E. Hähnel ed. (1992), 133-68, (159-60), for lists and discussion of foliage, strapwork and arabesque ornament derived from Kleinmeister engravings, mainly by Heinrich Aldegrever.
COMP: Klinge, E. 1972, Siegburger Steinzeug, Kataloge des Hetjens-Museum Düsseldorf, Hetjens-Museum, Düsseldorf, cat. 426, 515 and 509 respectively for similar medallions; Seewald, P. 1990, Rheinisches Steinzeug: Bestandskatalog des Rheinischen Landesmuseums Trier, Schriftenreihe des Rheinischen Landesmuseums Trier, 3, Trier, cat. 293-4 for similar medallions (L).
For sources of relief designs:
(L) probably based on Aldegrever series of 1536 (Ill. Bartsch 258 (440); von Falke, O. 1908, Das Rheinische Steinzeug (2 volumes), Berlin (reprint Osnabrück 1997), I, fig. 45; Hähnel, E. 1992c, ‘Zu einiger Siegburger Gefässtypen der Renaissance’, in E. Hähnel ed. (1992), 133-68, (159), for list of medallions with Blattmasken);
(C) possibly School of Matthias Zündt (unpublished, Kunstbibliothek, Berlin, inv. 96.71); (R) see van Gangelen , H. 1989, ‘Tot lering en vermaak: een moralistische narren-voorstelling op een Bossche voetschaal van sgraffito-aardewerk uit ca. 1500’, Mededelingenblad Nederlandse Vereniging van Vrienden van de Ceramiek, 135:3, 19-22, fig. 3, for Siegburg jug found in Nijmegen with identical medallion identified as the Lovers and the Fool (an allegory on Lust) from late 15th to early 16th-century sources, including Hieronymus Bosch’s depiction of Luxuria in the Seven Deadly Sins’ of 1475-80 (Marynissen, R. H. & Ruyffelaere, P. 1987, Hiëronymus Bosch: het vollendige oeuvre, Haarlem, 332)
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Missing neck.
- Acquisition date
- 1893
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1893,0214.2