Jug with seventeen personifications, Stoneware jug on high feet with a cylindrical body with slightly narrower, round shoulder and long neck. The C-shaped ear is attached to the neck and shoulder. Covered with a brown engobe. On the belly a wide band with in relief a printed and imposed decoration of seventeen personifications with their names above it. Shown are astrology, the Seven Virtues and the Nine Muses: Astrologia, Fides, Caritas, Spes, Iustitia, Prvdencia, Temperatia, Fortitvdo, Pelpomene, Tialia, Evt [?], Terpsichorie, Clio, Poli, Caliope, Erato, Vrania. Among the female figures
Jug with seventeen personifications, Stoneware jug on high feet with a cylindrical body with slightly narrower, round shoulder and long neck. The C-shaped ear is attached to the neck and shoulder. Covered with a brown engobe. On the belly a wide band with in relief a printed and imposed decoration of seventeen personifications with their names above it. Shown are astrology, the Seven Virtues and the Nine Muses: Astrologia, Fides, Caritas, Spes, Iustitia, Prvdencia, Temperatia, Fortitvdo, Pelpomene, Tialia, Evt [?], Terpsichorie, Clio, Poli, Caliope, Erato, Vrania. Among the female figures the inscription 'BEI MEI MISTER BALDEM MENNICKIN POTENBECKER LIVING TOTS RACES IN LEIDEN AND DOLTED ANNO DVSENT 1579'. To the right of the last lady the word 'NOVEM'. The shoulder and the lower part of the abdomen with incised pockets. On the neck a band with curls and diamonds. Raeren., anonymous, Raeren, c. 1579 - c. 1600, stoneware, glaze, engobe, vitrification, h cm d cm d cm d cm w cm
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