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Description: | Public:
Globular bellarmine bottle, grey stoneware with a brown salt-glaze, with applied bearded mask to neck and floral medallion to body.
Private:
Globular bellarmine bottle, with narrow foot and tall tapering narrow neck with moulded ribbed rim. Loop handle emerging from neck rim with tapering lower terminal at shoulder. Moulded bearded mask (Holmes type VIII) applied to neck opposite handle, with moulded circular medallion to waist below, containing stylised eight-petalled floral rosette within denticulated border. Heavily pitted brown salt glaze, with streaks and patches of yellow green to right of handle and around lower body. Group of thin glaze-free break marks at waist to left of handle, 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, (1923.366). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.2597 | Go to resource |
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