Stein

Germany, 1698

Stoneware, painted with cobalt and manganese, salt-glazed, pewter mounts.

H: 22.3 cm

Markings: (on a pewter mount) “MCH 1698”

UMP 7773

German stoneware with three bands of relief ornamentation painted with cobalt and manganese, salt-glazed. Metal mounts at the base and neck.

Stoneware is a type of sintered, non-porous ceramic material fired at temperatures reaching up to 1400°C. The body can have different colours depending on the type of clay used and the firing technique (reduction or oxidation). The glaze, which is formed either by vitrification of the surface during firing or by salt thrown into the kiln before the end of firing, achieves highly resistant salt finish. Since the Middle Ages, stoneware has been a typically northern product, expanding from the Rhineland to Saxony, Holland, and England after the fifteenth century.

lsalt-glazed stoneware