Stoneware bartmann jug or bellarmine
The kilns at Frechen near Cologne specialised in producing jugs and bottles with mottled brown salt glaze. They were decorated with face-masks and badges. In Britain the masks are often called Bellarmines in the belief that they satirized the Roman Catholic Cardinal Bellarmine. In fact such masks had been made long before his time. With the passage of time the style of the face-mask becomes increasingly grumpy. This jug was made at Frechen around 1550-80. It is decorated with three armorial badges.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 189/2005/1/1/2
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Archaeology
- Material
- pottery
- Common Name
- stoneware bartmann jug or bellarmine
- Simple Name
- jug
- Period Classification
- Post Medieval (1500-1750)
- Production Year Low
- 1550
- Production Year High
- 1580
