Bellamine Jug

800.00

A very fine example of a 17th Century Bellarmine jug or bottle, these were potted mostly in Germany but also in Holland, Belgium, London and even in early Jamestown in America, they are very hard but brittle, the wonderful glaze was produced by throwing salt into the hot kiln when firing it, this one has a wonderful tiger glaze made in the early sixteen hundreds. The name Bellamine was named because Cardinal Bellamine tried to stop people drinking Gin that came in these bottles so his face was put on them.

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