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Late Sixteenth Century Rhenish Bartmann Jug ; Cologne perhaps Raeren, c.1580s.

Late Sixteenth Century Rhenish Bartmann Jug ; Cologne perhaps Raeren, c.1580s.

The Bartmann jug is of the type most often associated with the Renaissance taste - Three medallions with a profile of a stylised maiden adorn the globular body of the jug ; whilst the bearded face to the jug neck depicts the curious transition of bearded man to so-called mascaron, even animal or grotesque.

It is seemingly at this point in the late sixteenth century into the seventeenth century that we start to see a more grotesque type of bartmann - Indeed, this example is something more akin to the Raeren style, with similarities also seen in the later westerwald potters treatment of the mascaron.

Image 1 of Late Sixteenth Century Rhenish Bartmann Jug ; Cologne perhaps Raeren, c.1580s.
Image 2 of Late Sixteenth Century Rhenish Bartmann Jug ; Cologne perhaps Raeren, c.1580s.
Image 3 of Late Sixteenth Century Rhenish Bartmann Jug ; Cologne perhaps Raeren, c.1580s.
Image 4 of Late Sixteenth Century Rhenish Bartmann Jug ; Cologne perhaps Raeren, c.1580s.
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