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[edit]Stoneware drinking-jug
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Stoneware drinking-jug |
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| Description |
A stoneware jug with silver mounts on the handle, rim and a silver lid. This ware is known as tigerware due to the mottled surface. The mounts are decorated with scrolled floral decoration. The lid is decorated with a large flower, the petals arranged around a central knop. The letters WE are engraved on the knop. Between the lid and the hinge there is a fish or dolphin. The jug is German, Cologne, and the mounts are possibly English. |
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| Date | 16th century AD | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Ceramic - Pottery - Stoneware, Metal - Silver | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | H 20 x W 12.5 x D 10.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
MG 078 |
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| Object history | File of material relating to a tigerware jug. Includes photocopy of information card with photocopy of image of object (date unspecified); document comprising comments made by Professor Colin Townsend on a number of Rärenware objects (12 February 1996), including this one. Others are CG 025, CG 049 and MG 078 and a tankard without mounts with registration number which begins ‘HCM.’ Full registration number is not given. Dates present object to circa 1550-80. Also, that mounts were added to such objects in England, where they were prized, whereas they were not in Germany; photocopy of notes (22 January 1996) by Michael Holland, Registrar, Hunt Museum, which refer to a Christies catalogue of sale dated April 1902 which contains entries describing object similar to the present object. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Hunt Museum | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Source | https://www.huntmuseum.com/collection/stoneware-drinking-jug/ | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Public Domain via Hunt Museum | ||||||||||||||||||||
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