Jug (Bartmann jug) with coat of arms and portraits

Jug (bearded man jug) of stoneware on a foot ring with a globular body and narrow, short neck. The twisted, C-shaped handle is attached to the neck and shoulder. Profiles on the neck. Covered with a brown engobe and cobalt blue. On the belly three times a printed and applied medallion in relief. The central medallion shows the imperial arms, a double eagle, with small shields in the wings and above it the date '1604'. On either side of this a medallion with a portrait of an emperor with each a different, illegible, border inscription. On the neck, continuing on the shoulder, a bearded man. Frechen.