Featured Bellarmine inspired salt glazed jug

Welcome to the Forum, Tina.
I always love these jugs, we see them a lot here in the Netherlands because we are close to their place of origin.

Bartmann is the type, not the manufacturer. It means bearded man.

Fid is right, this is a German jug, made in the Cologne area. The original ones were made from the 15th - 18th century.
From the 16th century onward they were made in the town of Frechen, just west of Cologne, by potters who were expelled from Cologne because of the toxic fumes that came from their kilns. It is said that from then on they modelled the faces after the faces of the Cologne city governors who forced them out.

The jugs were exported throughout Europe, not just to the Austro-Hungarian lands. There was no specific link between Frechen and the Danube monarchy, other than trade to a foreign country.
It is likely that yours is a late 19th century replica, but you can contact the German Ceramicsmuseum to be sure: kontakt@keramikmuseum.de
This is a link to their site:
https://www.keramikmuseum.de/exhibition

 

Forgot to say, Tina, sorry about the mouse mummy.
Did you donate it to a museum?

 

I wrote to the seller, does he know anything about the origin of jug. He said, bought from an old man, whose wife hold dried flowers in it. I quote his words: "I put out some dried flower petals with a forcep, but I haven't got information about, what the aunty used for humus." LOOOL!

 

Reproductions are made in more places than you'd think. Here is one offered and made in the US for a gift shop at a historic site.

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/154979-jamestown-pottery-reproduction-bellarmin

 

Mine has much different shape, color, the face is not stamped, hasn’t decoration on the belly section, I think mine could be only inspired by the Bellarmine Bartmann jugs, and not a direct reproduction. But the museum, if answer me, i will know much more.

 

the interpretation is doubtful. in and around Cologne this form of jugs was also used by booze factories. it's not a reproduction but used to transport and ship Schnaps.

a few from the mid-19th to early 20th c. I had in my collection.

 

wonderful jugs. I think I found a new hobby... after the Herend fishnet animal figurines collecting...

 

you have more than enough in Hungary ! Zsolnay ! and the whole stuff that is widely unknown from the Siebenbürger Sachsen etc..

 

And Siebenbürger (Transylvanian) jewellery, don't get me started! Where folk jewellery meets Austro-Hungarian Renaissance Revival.
Although it is now Romanian, I found a lot of Transylvanian/Siebenbürger items when I was in Hungary in the 80s. Some Hungarians I met at the time were upset that Transylvania was now Romanian.

 

If you mean the one in the link I posted, it is a reproduction of those found at the Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the United States, and they are made to be sold in the gift shop there.


I love your collection of schnapps bottles

 

I meant the original one they made a copy off. the Germans would have marked it Jakobsstadt.
besided this, it's amazing how similar the bottoms of the Schnaps bottles and this one here look. seems the Schnaps-bottles were cleansed on the bottoms as well.

 

Just to clarify for fid: I assume it was marked Jamestown 1978, because it was made as a replica for the Jamestown gift shop in 1978. Not that the original was ever marked Jamestown 1978.

 

Mouse mummy museum!

 

Nooo, I forget to donate.

 

It is probably just a small museum.

I'm sure they would have been happy with it, but ah well, better luck next time.
Seriously, some museums have them, mice were mummified in ancient Egypt (of course ) to accompany sacred mummified cats, so the cats wouldn't go hungry in the afterlife.
Of course mice looked different in ancient times: