Jug with masks and stylized foliate ornamentation, anonymous, c. 1650 - c. 1699 Can be made of stoneware on high foot with an egg -shaped abdomen and a narrow neck with pinched spout. The C-shaped ear is attached to the neck and shoulder. Some of the lines of the foot and the neck. Partly covered with cobalt blue and mangangan purple. On the neck a relief decoration with a printed, imposed mask from a bearded man or a lion. The front of the abdomen with concentric circles of flower vines and a flower rosette. To the handle an empty medallion. The sides with a vertical line of small masks with


Jug with masks and stylized foliate ornamentation, anonymous, c. 1650 - c. 1699 Can be made of stoneware on high foot with an egg -shaped abdomen and a narrow neck with pinched spout. The C-shaped ear is attached to the neck and shoulder. Some of the lines of the foot and the neck. Partly covered with cobalt blue and mangangan purple. On the neck a relief decoration with a printed, imposed mask from a bearded man or a lion. The front of the abdomen with concentric circles of flower vines and a flower rosette. To the handle an empty medallion. The sides with a vertical line of small masks with triangular leaf motifs on either side. Westerwald. Westerwald stoneware. glaze. cobalt (mineral). manganese oxide vitrification Can be made of stoneware on high foot with an egg -shaped abdomen and a narrow neck with pinched spout. The C-shaped ear is attached to the neck and shoulder. Some of the lines of the foot and the neck. Partly covered with cobalt blue and mangangan purple. On the neck a relief decoration with a printed, imposed mask from a bearded man or a lion. The front of the abdomen with concentric circles of flower vines and a flower rosette. To the handle an empty medallion. The sides with a vertical line of small masks with triangular leaf motifs on either side. Westerwald. Westerwald stoneware. glaze. cobalt (mineral). manganese oxide vitrification


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