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Description: | Public:
Globular bellarmine bottle, grey stoneware with a brown salt-glaze, with applied bearded mask to neck and three heraldic medallions to body.
Private:
Broad, globular bellarmine bottle tapering to broad flat foot, with tapering narrow neck and moulded ribbed neckrim. Strap loop handle emerging from beneath neck rim with tapering lower terminal at shoulder. Moulded bearded mask (Holmes type IV) applied to neck opposite handle, three moulded oval medallions positioned around waist, each bearing the same coat of arms of a shield surmounted by a winged helmet. Heavily pitted red-brown salt glaze, with large patches of grey around lower body, streaked with brown. Small grey patch with glaze-free break mark between medallions to right of mask, 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, c 1590=1610, (1923.387). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.2619 | Go to resource |
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