Record ID: LON-6A2B36 - POST MEDIEVAL vessel

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Unique ID: LON-6A2B36

Object type certainty: Certain

A resized image of A Post Medieval ceramic sherd from a Westerwald stoneware jug dating to the early 17th century.

A Post Medieval ceramic sherd from a Westerwald stoneware jug dating to the early 17th century. The sherd includes all of the rim and neck of the jug and the applied face-mask. There is a scar at the point of attachment for the upper section of the handle. The sherd is salt-glazed light grey stoneware with cobalt-blue painted decoration under the glaze. The mask shows a face in full view with a ridged line running down the centre of the forehead and the nose, and then a separated line running under the noise and down either side of the mouth, similar to a moustache. Around the face there are radiating pointed ovals. To each side of the mask there are three stamped motifs in the shape of an inverted heart with decorative terminal projecting from the point. At the junction between the neck and the body there are decorative ridge and grooves.

A very similar face-mask is shown on the neck of a baluster jug illustrated in Gaimster (1997:260 no.114). Gaimster describes this as a baluster jug with pulled lip and strap handle, with a domed pewter lid and double-acorn thumb piece. Applied around the body of the jug is a frieze of seven shields-of-arms for the Electoral College set within an arcade, each identified by initials. The neck of the jug has an applied grotesque lion-mask.

Dimensions: weight: 91.61g.

Reference: Gaimster, D. 1997. German Stoneware 1200-1900. Archaeology and Cultural History. British Museum Press, London.

Class: Jug

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1700

Dimensions and weight

Weight: 91.61 g
Quantity: 1

Materials and construction

Primary material: Ceramic [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Manufacture method: Wheel made [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Completeness: Fragment [scope notes | view all attributed records]

Spatial data

Region: South East And London
County: Greater London
District: Tower Hamlets
Parish: Tower Hamlets

Restricted 4 Figure grid reference: TQ3380
The map has been degraded and provides an approximate location with a degree of random obfuscation.
Grid reference source: From finder
Grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.

Method of discovery: Other chance find [scope notes]
General landuse: Open fresh water [scope notes]
Specific landuse: Running water [scope notes]

Personal details

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Recorded by: Mrs Kate Sumnall - [ view all attributed records]
Identified by: Mrs Kate Sumnall - [view all attributed records]

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