Milk pitcher
Milk pitcher
Producer
Frankovič Ján
SKU
26518391
Techniques
pottery
Material
clay
Craft
clay craft, jug making
Dimensions
mliečnik: diameter = 10.5 cm; mliečnik: diameter = 15.5 cm; mliečnik: diameter = 11.5 cm; mliečnik: height = 24.5 cm
About product
Milk jug “pitcher” made of red clay, thrown on the wheel. The largest bulge of the body below the halfway point, with walls tapering upwards, the neck is wide, low, and conical, the handle comes out from the edge of the neck. Decor: below the neck around the vessel, stylized geometric branches painted with white slip using a quill. The interior of the milk jug coated with a transparent colorless glaze, the exterior with a pale green transparent glaze.
Member of the old pottery family from Bardejov, the fourteenth and last representative. He inherited from his father, who was the last master potter in Bardejov, the production legacy of the old craft along with written and other historical monuments...
