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Description: | Globular bellarmine bottle, with narrow everted foot and tall tapering narrow neck with moulded ribbed rim. Loop handle emerging from neck rim to shoulder (broken). Moulded bearded mask (Holmes type VIII) applied to neck opposite handle, with moulded buckle-shaped medallion to waist below, containing unidentified (schematic?) coat of arms comprising demi-lion rampant surmounting five-pointed rosette within a shield. Heavily pitted glossy brown salt glaze, with grey patch and three glaze-free break marks to right of medallion, 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, 1600=1650 (circa), (1923.364). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.2595 | Go to resource |
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