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German English, London England

Tigerware Jug, 1579-1580

Now On View

Description

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

German

Title

Tigerware Jug

Year

1579-1580

Medium

Stoneware with salt glaze (German) and gilded silver mounts (English)

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • gilding,
  • gilded,
  • stoneware,
  • silver,
  • AR

Dimensions

24.1 x 15.2 x 14 cm (9 1/2 x 6 x 5 1/2 inches)

Place

London; England

Type

  • Ceramics

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

47.625

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Bottoms Up! Drinking Vessels from the Museum Collection

August 1, 2003 - July 31, 2004

The English Eye

June 21 - September 1, 1991

European Galleries

This jug embodies both local styles and international influences. Made of traditional German stoneware, it is embellished with English mounts made of silver that was most likely mined in the Americas.

Tigerware is an English term for German mottled-brown glazed stoneware made along the Rhine River. Unlike glass versions, stoneware jugs were affordable—and therefore common—in England in the 1500s and 1600s. By the mid-1500s, the addition of elaborate metal mounts to stoneware vessels became popular. A London goldsmith using the stamp I.C. mounted this jug with a gilded-silver cover and base. They are decorated with heraldic lion-mask shields, clusters of fruit, and a thumbpiece in the form of a merman.

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