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Description: | Globular bellarmine bottle, with narrow everted foot and tapering narrow neck with moulded and incised ribbed rim. Heavy strap loop handle emerging from neck rim, with tapered lower terminal at shoulder. Moulded bearded mask (Holmes type V) applied to neck opposite handle, with moulded circular medallion to waist below, containing unidentified coat of arms surmounted by a crown. Finely pitted evenly coloured dark brown salt glaze, lower body and foot uncoloured. Indented glaze free patch below handle to left surmounted by long thin break mark, glaze-free patch below handle to right, both marks probably from point of contact with another bottle or clay pad during firing.
Technique: thrown
Technique: applied relief
Technique: impressed
Technique: salt-glazed
Material: ceramics
Material: stoneware
bottle & bellarmine & bartmannkrug made in Frechen, Germany, Europe, 1625=1650 (circa), (1923.362). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.2593 | Go to resource |
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