Artifact Gallery (HC-RS-081)
Rhenish Stoneware (HC-RS-081)
Image File Names:
CC-Rhenish-Stoneware-18KE292-30-1.jpg
Photographer:
Patricia Samford
Artifact Owner:
Maryland Historical Trust
Credit Line:
Image courtesy of the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory, Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum.
Contact for Access:
Rebecca Morehouse, MAC Lab
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HC-RS-081
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gray-bodied salt glaze stoneware
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applied and incised decoration with cobalt blue
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jug
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Gray-bodied salt glazed stoneware jug with applied oval medallion molded with an Emich Medallion depicting a crest of three helmets each with a crown on top. The center helmet is topped with a tree and two other unidentified images are located over the right and left helmets. The shield is quartered with a smaller shield in the center. The small, central shield contains a cross design. In the main shield, the top left quadrant features three displayed eagles. The top right quadrant contains a lion rampant with two tails and a crown on its head. In the bottom half of the shield, the two quadrants are exactly the same but their placement is reversed, with the lion on the left and the eagles on the right. The completed inscription under the shield would read, "FRIDERICH EMICH GRAF ZU LEININGEN UND TAXBURG HERR ZU APPIRMUN". This inscription states that Friderich Emich was the Count of Leiningen and Taxburg or Dagsburg. Several bottles similar to this vessel were produced for the wedding of Count Emich’s son Emich XIII on February 24, 1676. The inscription on these vessels is exactly the same but the wedding bottles include the date 1676 at the end. Political portraits and heraldry on ceramic vessels were popular throughout the 16th and 17th centuries.
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18KE292
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Buck Site
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30
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trashpit on rural plantation
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c. 1660-1700
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Heraldic and portrait medallions continued to appear on blue on gray vessels throughout the 17th century and into the early 18th century (Gaimster 1997:148).
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