Stoneware-drinking Jug

3D Model

Material: Ceramic; Pottery; Stoneware; Metal; silver. Accession No: MG 078. Current Location: The Hunt Museum, Limerick.

A stoneware jug with silver mounts on the handle, rim and a silver lid. This ware is known as tigerware due to the mottled surface. The mounts are decorated with scrolled floral decoration. The lid is decorated with a large flower, the petals arranged around a central knop. The letters WE are engraved on the knop. Between the lid and the hinge there is a fish or dolphin. The jug is German, Cologne, and the mounts are possibly English.

16th century AD