Bartmann jug

Unidentified Maker, Frechen Germany
Date: ca. 1700
Maker: Unidentified Maker, Frechen Germany
Dimensions: 10 5/8 x 7 Dia.
Materials: Salt-glazed stoneware
Credit: Gift of John P. Remensnyder
Accession Number: 1969.42.4.2
Comments:

“Bartmann,” German for bearded man, is a common name for the stoneware jugs decorated with the face of a bearded men and produced in Frechen, Germany, over a three-hundred-year period, from the sixteenth century to the end of the eighteenth. The Dutch imported and used German-made stoneware jugs for serving and storing a variety of liquids including distilled spirits and molasses. Shards of Bartmann jugs appear regularly at early settlements where the Dutch traded.