IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 311395 accession number: C.2019-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Wednesday 20 July 2022 updated: Tuesday 9 August 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: brown salt-glazed stoneware with applied bearded face mask on the front of the neck, and a rosette below title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: an unknown owner in Stanstead, Essex; bought in Cambridge in 1893 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/311395 SUBJECTS ------------------- bearded face mask bearded face mask TECHNIQUES ---------- throwing (pottery technique) CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: salt-glazed stoneware category: German stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1600 - 1699 creation date earliest: 1600 creation date latest: 1699 culture: 17th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Frechen pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 14.3 dimension: Height units: cm value: 21.3 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The So-called "Bellarmine" mask on imported Rhenish stoneware' German Stoneware 1200-1900 Archaeology and Cultural History ---