Bellarmine jug

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This is a Bellarmine jug. The body has been decorated with a medallion of a star within a shield. The neck has a bearded male face depicted on it. A Bartmann jug (from German Bartmann, "bearded man"), also called 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 what is today western Germany. The signature decorative detail was a bearded face mask appearing on the lower neck of the vessel. They were made as jugs, bottles and pitchers in various sizes and for a multitude of uses, including storage of food or drink, decanting wine and t ______________ This object is scanned by the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, England. 

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Established in 1883, the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is one of eight University of Cambridge Museums.

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