Beardman or Bellarmine jug
Unknown
17th century · Salt-glazed stoneware · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
The motif of a bearded face is carved in low relief at the neck of this jug. Known as Beardman or Bellarmine jugs, these stoneware vessels were made in Cologne and the Rhineland beginning in the sixteenth century.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 17th century
- Medium
- Salt-glazed stoneware
- Culture
- German, Cologne-Frechen
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1908
