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Jug with a coat of arms, scenes and a portrait
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Jug with a coat of arms, scenes and a portrait

c. 1570 - c. 1590 · turning; vitrification; appliqué (techniek); relief (sculpture technique); fired; formed; ingriffen; stoneware; glaze

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

About this work

Jug of stoneware on a ring foot with a globular belly and narrow neck. The C-shaped handle is attached to the neck and shoulder. Profile on the neck. On the belly in relief four times a printed and applied medallion; two large and two small. The small medallions are filled with a coat of arms and a portrait of a crowned man and face with the inscription 'EZECHIA'. The large medallions with a devil fighting a woman in a landscape and a scene of Aristotle being ridden by Phyllis like a horse; above it the inscription 'SALMON'. Siegburg.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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jug
Credit lineJug with a coat of arms, scenes and a portrait. c. 1570 - c. 1590. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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