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Jug with a mask and stylized foliate ornamentation
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Jug with a mask and stylized foliate ornamentation

anonymous · c. 1650 - c. 1674 · turning; vitrification; appliqué (techniek); relief (sculpture technique); fired; formed; ingriffen; stoneware; glaze; manganese oxide; cobalt (mineral)

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Stoneware jug on a high foot with an ovoid belly and a narrow neck with a pinched spout. The C-shaped handle is attached to the neck and shoulder. Some incised lines on the foot and neck. Partially covered with cobalt blue and manganese purple. On the neck a relief decoration with a printed, applied mask of a bearded man or a lion. The front of the belly with concentric circles of vines and stylized, triangular leaf motifs. In the center a quatrefoil. Around the handle an empty medallion. The sides with a vertical line of quatrefoils with leaf motifs on either side. Westerwald.

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Credit lineJug with a mask and stylized foliate ornamentation. c. 1650 - c. 1674. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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