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Description: | Public:
Globular bellarmine bottle, grey stoneware with a brown salt-glaze, with applied bearded mask to neck and heraldic medallion to body.
Private:
Globular bellarmine bottle, with narrow foot and tall tapering narrow neck with heavy moulded ribbed rim. Loop handle emerging from neck rim with tapering lower terminal at shoulder. Moulded bearded mask (Holmes type IX) applied to neck opposite handle, with moulded buckle-shaped medallion to waist below, containing lion rampant within denticulated border. Heavily pitted evenly coloured dense red-brown salt glaze, with darker patch to left of handle. Two indented glaze-free patches on body, one beneath handle to left, one to left 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), (1923.398). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.2630 | Go to resource |
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