Bartmann jug
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1800
notes: label: Label Text
content: Beginning in the 16th century German potters produced saltglaze stoneware, which they exported all over Europe. Fired to a great hardness, the pots were covered with a saltglaze that produced a rich brown color, similar to bronze. Popular shapes included round jugs used to serve beer. The most distinctive were those with human faces on or just below the neck known as Bellarmines or Bartmann jugs. The best date from the second half of the 16th century, but they continued to be made in the 17th century and even later in some places.
label: Description
content: Large stoppered brown colored ovoid shaped vessel with a burnished body, a handle and an impression of a bearded face just below the neck.
label: Provenance
content: Walshaert collection, Antwerp, before 1930
label: Content Statement
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place: label: Geography
content: Germany
label: Geography
content: Democratic Republic of the Congo
label: Geography
content: Congo
title: label: Object Name
content: <I>bellarmine</I>
topic: label: Topic
content: male
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content: National Museum of African Art Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchased with funds provided by the Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Object number
content: 89-13-73
objectType: label: Type
content: Ceramics
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Ceramic, salt glaze
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 48.2 x 27.3 cm (19 x 10 3/4 in.)