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

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Photo credit: © Gibon Art / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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