Pennsylvania Museum BulletinNumber 33, January 1911 . - at Raeren and hadtheir coats of arms placed upon them. On the back of the jug which is here figured, beneath the handle, arethree relief medallions containing coats of arms. The central one has notyet been identified but the other two bear the inscription F. Joan Mintzen-burg Prior Carmel Franc. 1609. Johan ?Mintzenburg was at that time aCarmelite Prior at Frankfort, Germany, and it was doubtless for him thatthis example was made. The upper and lower portions of this rare example are embellishedwith incised and embossed designs. BULLKTIX
Pennsylvania Museum BulletinNumber 33, January 1911 . - at Raeren and hadtheir coats of arms placed upon them. On the back of the jug which is here figured, beneath the handle, arethree relief medallions containing coats of arms. The central one has notyet been identified but the other two bear the inscription F. Joan Mintzen-burg Prior Carmel Franc. 1609. Johan ?Mintzenburg was at that time aCarmelite Prior at Frankfort, Germany, and it was doubtless for him thatthis example was made. The upper and lower portions of this rare example are embellishedwith incised and embossed designs. BULLKTIX OF THE ri-:XNSVL\ANIA MUSEUM II. RAEREN FLAGON Salt Glozed StonewareDated 1609 12 BULLETIN OF THE PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM There are also in the Museum several Raeren jugs of similar form, teninches in height, known as Baiiernfaiis-Kriigc { Peasants Dance Jugs). Aroundthe centres extend bands with continuous figure scenes of men and w^omendancing, in pairs, accompanied by the following inscription: geriiet du mus daper islasen so DANSSEN Dl BUREN ALS WEREN Sl RASENFRY \-F SPRICT BASTOR icu \]-:rdans dy kap :mit den translation is as follows : Gerald thou must blow lustily So the peasants may dance as though they were mad Faith, says the pastor I will dance away my cap with my cassock. These examples are dated 1597. The principal characteristics of Raeren stoneware are a yellowish orgrayish body, glaze, varying in color from a deep reddish brownto a pale dirty yellow-, frecjuently mottled or freckled, in places, with wellmodeled decorations which have been separately moulded and applied to thesurface
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