Pottery Botijo

Any idea of age and origin? Never seen one with a spout being on the handle.
Thanks

 

Seems purposefully perplexing.
Existential Pottery.

Or maybeeeeeeeeeee... does the top have a regular opening? Maybe the "spout" is actually a pour-control mechanism... if you have your thumb over it, with pitcher inverted, it won't pour... thumb off and it pours? Just the thing for a busy serving-wench??

 

The top has strainer. Interesting idea of the water control.I'll give it a try and tell later. By the way, something rattles inside. Don't know if there is something put there on purpose or it got in somehow. I can't take it out because of the strainer.

 

You have fun mysteries, Mr. Kard!

 

All I can say is that I had one very similar - flow control handle, strainer inside the mouth, something rattling around inside. I asked about it online and never did learn anything.

 

WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!
Seriously, Mr. Kard should buy me a drink!

EDIT
And you deserve one, too, MOS!

 

Any chance for a pic or maybe a link to the forums you asked on?

 

I asked on the eBay boards.

Here's a couple of pics:






Mine was about 5 ¾” tall, the body about 3 5/8” across.

 

WOWWWWWWWWWWWWW! I'll have a Margarita.
You, MOS?

 

I have one too, I'll have to look for my photos. Edit, found them. I also tried to find more about it but didn't come up with much. I got mine from someone in Belgium who believed it to be Portuguese. Mine has a handwritten word on the bottom which I think says Bosnic.

 

It's a landslide!

 

Who else got one?
There has to be some info on those type of vessels. Yours rattles too?

 

Yup mine rattles but I assumed it's the bits of pottery from when they poked the strainer holes.

Ok, it's been awhile since I did any research but I'm thinking I remember something about it being used to strain either wine or oil and the strainer was to prevent pits and things from going into the pot. I think if you hold your thumb over the hole in the handle it keeps it from pouring too fast.

Now is any of that right? I don't remember But at least I found my pics and got them loaded

 

WE SO ROCK HERE!

 

Sis is right, according to this huge pdf about pottery shapes: http://www.tfahr.org/files/Potteryshapes40_2010.pdf
On about page 16 it shows a gutus, for pouring olive oil into a lamp and filtering out "impurities".

 

I think filling one of these things would be more difficult than emptying it. Immersion would be the easiest way.

 

That 'gutus' from the link I guess is a type of the so called stirrup jars. But all that I found have spouts. I'll keep digging, as I think this vessel would have a name of its own.

 

Maybe you all/each have a DIAMOND in the bottom!!!!!!!!!!

 

Here is another one, possibly Hungarian. Not quite the same but with nipple on the handle and rattles. Found similar Romanian as well.
https://www.etsy.com/nz/listing/172309097/hungarian-pottery-pitcher-folk-art-jug

All the above examples are so different in decoration. But all have strainers, handle holes and rattle. I'd think whatever is inside is there on purpose.
By the way, I filled the jar all the way. The handle nipple does not control the flow. But it is convenient to sip from there.