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Description: | Artist: uncertain, potter; Date(s): circa 1598; Classification(s): stoneware, jug, moulding; Acquisition: bequeathed by Glaisher, J.W.L., Dr, 1928, Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest [C.2034-1928]
Description: Stoneware with applied moulded reliefs, brown wash, and salt-glaze.The jug has a cylindrical reeded neck, a domed shoulder, a loop handle, a cylindrical middle, contracting below into a low rounded foot. The middle is decorated with a frieze in relief of peasants dancing in arcaded compartments: below is a band with the following inscription: 'GERHET DV MVS DAPER BLASEN SO DANSSEN DIE BVREN ALS WEREN SI RASEN ERS VFSPRICHT BASTOR ICH VER DA . . .? (Gerard you must blow mightily/bravely; the boors dance as if they were mad; up speaks the pastor, I dance away my [cowl and surplus]. In the compartment to the left are the initials and date ?T .K. 1598?; in the next the intials, ?D.I.?; and on the extreme right, ?KAP? (cowl; ending of the first inscription). Below the body is divided into panels by vertical bands, and on the shoulder there are panels containing leaf motifs. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | uncertain stoneware jug | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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