Bellarmine jug
Unknown
1660–80 · Salt-glazed stoneware · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
German “bearded man” stoneware jugs are known to have been used in seventeenth-century America. Stoneware is fired at a higher temperature than earthenware, hot enough to make the clay vitrify or change into a glasslike substance, resulting in a nonporous ceramic body. Thus, stoneware jugs made ideal long-term storage containers.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1660–80
- Medium
- Salt-glazed stoneware
- Culture
- probably German, Frechen
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of M. Harris, 1910
