Jug

ca. 1600 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Jug depicting a half figure of a bearded saint with a book and crozier.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Jug depicting a half figure of a bearded saint with a book and crozier, possibly made in Faenza, Italy, about 1600, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Jug depicting a half figure of a bearded saint with a book and crozier.
Dimensions
  • Height: 15.5cm
  • Diameter: 11cm
Gallery label
(16/07/2008)
Jug
Made in Faenza?, Italy about 1600
Tin-glazed earthenware

C.249-1923
Credit line
Purchased through the Bequest of Captain H. B. Murray
Object history
Rosenheim Collection.
Production
This piece is dated by Rackham on the base of a lustred jug (Rackham 1940, p. 368) in a private collection. Presumably he refers to the same jug also in his Addenda Coll. Cat. (1959), p.139, n. 471.
Bibliographic reference
Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
1035 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
C.249-1923

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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