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pilgrim flask

1560/1600

British Museum

British Museum
London, United Kingdom

Pilgrim flask on hollow foot into which are cut two rectangular slots, one at each end. The sides have two pairs of horns in relief which curl up to a pair of grotesque satyr masks, each with two curling horns which form the handles of the flask. The stopper screws into the neck and has a flange and a finial. Earthenware covered on the exterior with a presumed tin-glaze. Painted with grotesques and cameo figures, one a figure running the other a portrait.

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  • Title: pilgrim flask
  • Date Created: 1560/1600
  • Physical Dimensions: Height: 40.60cm (overall); Length: 28.80cm; Width: 16.50cm; Length: 16.50cm (base); Width: 13.90cm (base); Weight: 2467.00g
  • External Link: British Museum collection online
  • Technique: tin-glazed
  • Subject: grotesque
  • Registration number: WB.63.b
  • Production place: Made in Urbino
  • Material: earthenware
  • Copyright: Photo: © Trustees of the British Museum
  • Acquisition: Bequeathed by Rothschild, Ferdinand Anselm. Previous owner/ex-collection Fountaine, Andrew
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