Production: Unidentified Frechen pottery
Brown salt-glazed stoneware with applied bearded face mask on the front of the neck, and a rosette below
Grey stoneware, thrown, decorated with applied moulded reliefs, coated with iron-brown wash and salt-glazed. The jug has a bulbous body, contracting into a tapering cylindrical neck, with cordons at the top, and a small loop handle with a tail below its lower end. Applied to the front of the neck is a bearded mask, below which is an applied oval medallion enclosing an eight-petalled flower with spots between the petals.
History note: An unknown owner in Stanstead, Essex; bought in Cambridge in 1893 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 14.3 cm
Height: 21.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century#
Circa
1600
-
1699
A relief motif similar to the one below the mask is on C.2020-1928.
This is a typical example of the thousands of brown salt-glazed stoneware bottles decorated with bearded masks which were imported into England from the Rhineland during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Surface
composed of
iron-brown wash
( or 'dip')
salt-glaze
Base
Diameter 7.7 cm
Decoration
Handle
grey Stoneware
Accession number: C.2019-1928
Primary reference Number: 311395
Old object number: 664
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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