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Description: | Artist: Unknown, pottery; Date(s): circa 1300 - 1350; Classification(s): tin-glazed earthenware, jug, throwing, cream earthenware, the lower part and interior are lead-glazed brownish-yellow, the rest is tin-glazed off-white; the tin-glaze has crazed; painted in manganese and copper-green.; Acquisition: bequeathed by Harris, F. Leverton, The Right Hon., 1927, F. Leverton Harris Bequest, 1926. [C.49-1927]
Description: Cream earthenware, the lower part and interior are lead-glazed brownish-yellow; the rest is tin-glazed off-white. The tin-glaze has crazed. Painted in manganese and green.
Shape 7. Ovoid with flat base; cylindrical neck, expanding slightly towards the rim; broad strap handle; spout made from a strip of clay, folded and pressed to the neck.
On the front under the spout, a grotesque devil with a striped body, long tail and four horns on its head, faces to the left holding out one of its hands. One side of the jug bears the word `SaS' (Sanctus) in manganese, enclosed by two green lines forming a curved rectangular frame, open on the side nearest the devil. The other side bears the word `IohS' (Johannes), similarly framed. | 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: | tin-glazed earthenware Unknown jug | Temporal: | name=14th Century; start=1300; end=1350 | 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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