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Description: | Broad, globular bellarmine bottle tapering to everted flat foot, with tapering neck topped with narrow moulded rim. Strap loop handle emerging from beneath neck rim with tapering lower terminal at shoulder. Moulded bearded mask (Holmes type V) applied to neck opposite handle, with moulded oval medallion to waist below, containing debased version of the Julich-Kleve-Berg coat of arms. Finely pitted, glossy dark brown salt glaze, with small patches of grey to immediate left and far right of medallion, and grey-green streaks along and beneath handle. Two glaze-free break marks 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, 1625=1650 (circa), (1923.375). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.2606 | Go to resource |
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