Salt glaze pottery
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Salt-glaze or salt glaze pottery is pottery, usually stoneware, with a ceramic glaze of glossy, translucent and slightly orange-peel-like texture which was formed by throwing common salt into the kiln
German Bartmann jug, c. 1600
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Salt glaze jug, 19th century
Salt glazed jug by Doulton. England, 1875
Bartmann jug
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A Bartmann jug, also called a Bellarmine jug, is a type of decorated salt-glazed stoneware that was manufactured in Europe throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, especially in the Cologne region, in
Salt glaze pottery
…pottery towns of the Westerwald, including Höhr-Grenzhausen, Siegburg, Köln, and Raeren in Flanders, were producing a salt-glazed stoneware, with the Bartmann jug a typical product. In the 17th century, salt glaze gained popularity in England as well as in Colonial America. Westerwald Pottery was characterized…
Georg Flegel (1635) Still Life with Stag Beetle, Wallraf–Richartz Museum. The jug has been dated to c. 1525, making it an example of how long they have been used in households.
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BLW Bartmann Jug