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Bellarmines are very satisfying decorative and useful shapes that have a long and interesting history. I like to think I'm keeping alive the tradition of Medieval potters but re interpreting their designs and using different materials.
My Bellarmines are slip cast with earthenware clay using a plaster mould.
The pots are finished with a decorative glaze on the outside, this is one is a metallic green..
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Earthenware slip cast Bellarmine in Metalic green glaze..
Bellarmines are storage pots originally produced in the middle ages, made with salt glazed stoneware. They depict Cardinal Bellarmino's face, a strict 16th century Italian Catholic.
The Netherland-ish potters of the time were all Protestant so mocked his abstinence by putting his face on their pots, used for transporting ale, wine and other liquids!
They were also known as a Bartman or Greybeard. Being ideal containers for shipping bellarmines have been found in New England and even as far as Perth, Australia. One was recovered from the wreck of the Mary Rose in the Solent.
These are the type of pots the Mayflower Pilgrims would have used, now being made by myself in Pilgrim country.
This piece is 23 cm in height and 18 cm wide.
Uk free postage included.
Designed by SHAUN CLARK in East Retford
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