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Jug

Jug

  • Place of origin:

    Westerwald (made)

  • Date:

    1702-1714 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    unknown (production)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Salt-glazed stoneware, moulded and incised

  • Credit Line:

    Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street

  • Museum number:

    3751-1901

  • Gallery location:

    Ceramics Study Galleries, Asia & Europe, room 137, case G2, shelf 3

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This jug is an example of Westerwald ware. These wares were imported into Britain from Germany from the late 1600s until at least 1780. At this time English stoneware factories made only brown wares and were unable to reproduce the blue and purple decoration used on Westerwald beer mugs. After 1714 these imported German mugs bore a 'GR' medallion for 'Georgius Rex'.

Physical description

Jug of salt-glazed stoneware with applied and incised decoration coloured blue. Globular body with a cylindrical neck with horizontal mouldings and a small loop handle. On the front is a medallion with the initials 'A R' under a crown. On either side of the medallion are stems with flowers and foliage reserved on a ground coloured blue and the outline incised.

Place of Origin

Westerwald (made)

Date

1702-1714 (made)

Artist/maker

unknown (production)

Materials and Techniques

Salt-glazed stoneware, moulded and incised

Marks and inscriptions

'A R'

Dimensions

Height: 17.5 cm, Diameter: 13.7 cm

Descriptive line

Jug of salt-glazed stoneware with applied and incised decoration, made in the Westerwald, ca. 1702-1714.

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Hildyard, Robin. European Ceramics. London : V&A Publications, 1999. 144 p., ill. ISBN 185177260X

Materials

Stoneware; Salt glaze

Techniques

Glazed; Moulded; Incised

Subjects depicted

Flowers; Foliage; Medallion; Crown

Categories

Ceramics; Stoneware

Collection code

CER

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