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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 moulded ribbed rim. Ribbed strap loop handle emerging from beneath neck rim with tapering lower terminal at shoulder. Moulded bearded mask (Holmes type VIII) applied to neck opposite handle, with moulded oval medallion to waist below, containing merchant's symbol(?) of a trident intersected with a cross, within leafy and denticulated borders. Heavily pitted dense red-brown salt glaze, streaked around lower body. Large glaze-free patch on side to right of handle, two small patches low down to left and right 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 (circa), (1923.400). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.2632 | Go to resource |
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