Basic info

Collection

Decorative Arts

Object name

Bellarmine

Object category

Ceramic

Creators

Unknown (Potter)

Description

A large Bellarmine salt glazed jar. 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 cartouche with an applied moulded heraldic design. Two small circular cartouches are applied to the upper body left and right of the main design. The grey stoneware body has a mottled brown glaze.

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