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Jug with three handles and Lady Justice
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Jug with three handles and Lady Justice

c. 1550 - c. 1599 · turning; vitrification; appliqué (techniek); relief (sculpture technique); slibtechniek; fired; formed; ingriffen; stoneware; glaze; engobe

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Jug of stoneware on a high foot with an egg-shaped body and wide neck. Three C-shaped handles are attached to the neck and shoulder. Profiles on the neck, shoulder, and foot. Covered with a brown engobe. The base of the handles extends vertically in a narrowing profile to halfway down the belly. Between these profiles, in relief, an impressed and applied medallion with Lady Justice and the inscription 'GERECHTIGEI[...]' in a mandorla surrounded by scrollwork. Raeren.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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Credit lineJug with three handles and Lady Justice. c. 1550 - c. 1599. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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