Collection Item: Bellarmine

Basic info

Collection
Decorative Arts
Object name
Bellarmine
Object category
Ceramic
Creators
Unknown (Potter)
Description
A brown salt glazed jug or Bellarmine. It has a bulbous body and narrow neck, decorated with a relief moulded applied face with a beard. Below this on the body is a moulded applied cartouche of a star or flower. The brown glaze is mottled.
Production date start
1550
Production date end
1800
Period
Tudor
Elizabethan
Stuart
Jacobean
Charles I and Civil War
Commonwealth
Restoration
William and Mary
Queen Anne
Georgian

More info

Identification

Object number
YORYM : 2001.10172
Number of objects
1
Classification code
2.666
2.62
Classification scheme
SHIC
SHIC
ID
15002803

Physical Characteristics

Materials
Stoneware (Whole)
Dimensions
Whole height 213.0 mm
Whole diameter 120.0 mm

Production

Creators
Unknown (Potter)
Technique
Salt glazed
School/style
Tiger ware