Lovely Bellarmine jug or Bartmanns krug, Germany, Cologne 1660-1680!
$595.00
Reduced, was $750
Reduced, was $750
A very nice and intact bellarmine jug or Bartmannskrug as they are called in Europe, c. 1660-1680.
A fearsome head on the neck of a bearded man with fangs as teeth. Below is a floral medallion. Fine Tiger-glaze ware piece.
A Bartmann jug (from German Bartmann, "bearded man"), also called a Bellarmine jug, is a type of decorated salt-glazed stoneware that was manufactured in Europe throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, especially in the Cologne region, in what is today western Germany. The characteristic decorative detail is a bearded face mask appearing on the lower neck of the vessel. They were made as jugs, bottles, and pitchers in various sizes and for a multitude of uses, including storage of food or drink, decanting wine and transporting goods.
German “bearded man” stoneware jugs are known to have been used in seventeenth-century America as well. Stoneware is fired at a higher temperature than earthenware, hot enough to make the clay vitrify or change into a glasslike substance, resulting in a nonporous ceramic body. Thus, stoneware jugs made ideal long-term storage containers.
Size: c. 22 cm.
Condition: Choice and intact for the early ceramic jug. Some typical flaws from the making in the kiln, like minor places with missing glaze and some very light wear to the glaze on the rim and the typical micro denting to the rim of the base due to the way it was made. These will not get much better than this.
Reff. See an almost identical Bellarmine at The Met Accession Number: 10.113
Ex. Danish private Collection.
A fearsome head on the neck of a bearded man with fangs as teeth. Below is a floral medallion. Fine Tiger-glaze ware piece.
A Bartmann jug (from German Bartmann, "bearded man"), also called a Bellarmine jug, is a type of decorated salt-glazed stoneware that was manufactured in Europe throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, especially in the Cologne region, in what is today western Germany. The characteristic decorative detail is a bearded face mask appearing on the lower neck of the vessel. They were made as jugs, bottles, and pitchers in various sizes and for a multitude of uses, including storage of food or drink, decanting wine and transporting goods.
German “bearded man” stoneware jugs are known to have been used in seventeenth-century America as well. Stoneware is fired at a higher temperature than earthenware, hot enough to make the clay vitrify or change into a glasslike substance, resulting in a nonporous ceramic body. Thus, stoneware jugs made ideal long-term storage containers.
Size: c. 22 cm.
Condition: Choice and intact for the early ceramic jug. Some typical flaws from the making in the kiln, like minor places with missing glaze and some very light wear to the glaze on the rim and the typical micro denting to the rim of the base due to the way it was made. These will not get much better than this.
Reff. See an almost identical Bellarmine at The Met Accession Number: 10.113
Ex. Danish private Collection.
