Collection Online as of October 14, 2019
Ewer
Saint-Porchaire
(French)
Lead-glazed, white-paste earthenware with inlaid slip decoration
Overall: 35.6 x 13.7 cm (14 x 5 3/8 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1953.363
Location
114 Late Northern Renaissance
Description
An example of one of the most extravagant wares of this kind, this ewer is decorated with applied masks and frogs as well as a variety of stamped and inlaid designs. The shape and patterns reflect the metalwork of the time—the final period of this artistic pottery.
Saint-Porchaire
A French factory certainly active before 1542 and the probable source of a highly individual type of lead-glazed earthenware. These pieces are decorative objects of finely grained off-white paste with intricate inlaid patterns of strapwork made by impressing the clay with metal punches and filling the cavities with clays of contrasting colors, red, yellow and brown; they are covered with a transparent lead glaze.