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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. Strap 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 floral rosette composed of three concentric bands of overlapping petals. Finely pitted, evenly coloured red-brown salt glaze, with streaky marks above foot. Grey patches to left and immediate right of medallion, small glaze-free patch beneath 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 (circa), (1923.384). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.2616 | Go to resource |
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