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Jug with towers, female figures and flower roundels
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Jug with towers, female figures and flower roundels

anonymous · c. 1690 - c. 1720 · turning; vitrification; appliqué (techniek); relief (sculpture technique); fired; formed; stoneware; glaze; cobalt (mineral)

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

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Jug of stoneware on a ring foot with a globular body and a short neck with a pinched spout. The C-shaped handle is attached to the neck and shoulder. Profiles on the neck and foot. Partially covered with cobalt blue. On the belly, nine vertical bands in relief with a stamped and applied decoration of garlands, (church) towers, and crowned female figures. Except for one, the bands are placed next to each other in pairs, separated by a band with small flower rosettes in relief. Blue lines on the neck and foot. Westerwald.

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Credit lineJug with towers, female figures and flower roundels. c. 1690 - c. 1720. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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