Rhenish stoneware flagon with English silver-gilt mounts

An image of Jug/Flagon. Unknown, potter, Rhineland, Frechen. Unknown, silversmith, London. The foot, neck, and top of the loop handle have silver-gilt mounts, and the thumbpiece and cover are also silver-gilt. The flat foot ring is cast and decorated with an egg and dart border. Above this is a border of dentil moulding. Cut stylised leaves hold the pottery foot in place. The neck mount is engraved with strapwork and scrolling foliage. The slightly domed cover is embossed and chased with three masks within scrolled cartouches; between are bunches of fruit on a matted ground. The urn-shaped finial stands on a gadrooned knop. The thumbpiece is a cast mask, possibly Neptune. Salt-glazed stoneware, thrown, and salt-glazed with cast, embossed, chased, and engraved silver-gilt mounts, height, to top of finial, 22.8 cm, diameter, base, 10.2 cm, width, overall, 14.4 cm, 1576-1577. Renaissance. Elizabeth I. Production Notes: Rhenish brown salt-glazed stoneware is sometimes referred to as 'tiger ware'. The body of this jug was probably made at Frechen near Cologne in the Rhineland. The silversmith's mark of an incuse leaf, has not been identified.

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Jug/Flagon. Unknown, potter, Rhineland, Frechen. Unknown, silversmith, London. The foot, neck, and top of the loop handle have silver-gilt mounts, and the thumbpiece and cover are also silver-gilt. The flat foot ring is cast and decorated with an egg and dart border. Above this is a border of dentil moulding. Cut stylised leaves hold the pottery foot in place. The neck mount is engraved with strapwork and scrolling foliage. The slightly domed cover is embossed and chased with three masks within scrolled cartouches; between are bunches of fruit on a matted ground. The urn-shaped finial stands on a gadrooned knop. The thumbpiece is a cast mask, possibly Neptune. Salt-glazed stoneware, thrown, and salt-glazed with cast, embossed, chased, and engraved silver-gilt mounts, height, to top of finial, 22.8 cm, diameter, base, 10.2 cm, width, overall, 14.4 cm, 1576-1577. Renaissance. Elizabeth I. Production Notes: Rhenish brown salt-glazed stoneware is sometimes referred to as 'tiger ware'. The body of this jug was probably made at Frechen near Cologne in the Rhineland. The silversmith's mark of an incuse leaf, has not been identified.

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Accession Number: EC.32-1941
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/29.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 660 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 196.44kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 29/1
Captured: 2007:10:03 00:00:00

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Department Fitz_AA Material Object Type Silver jug

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