Description
Bottle with two passages White clay with lead glaze Decor of putti, plants and mascarons. H. 23 cm. Avon, late 16th/early 17th century. The gourd, a container with loops for passing a strap through, is used to carry liquids to quench thirst. It was made of bronze in ancient times, then of glass, ceramic, cucurbits, leather and wood. Apart from the pieces of excavation spreading from the VIth to the XVth century, the first gourds of the typology of ours, in western ceramics having reached us are those with the arms of Antoine Loisel, one presented to the Museum of Ceramics in Sèvres and dated from the first half of the XVIth century, and the other one in stoneware of St Verain with the arms of the Montmorency, in the Louvre. We are leaving here, like the one we are presenting, a tableware intended to be transported, often of rustic workmanship, for a more refined bourgeois tableware, glass being then rare, expensive and accessible only to the nobility. It is astonishing to note that in the iconography of the table and the kitchen, no ceramic gourd is represented at the time, despite the fact that Rabelais praised it in 1545 in his "Bringuenarilles cousin germain de Fessepinte". We find the same type, but in pewter, on the painting of Han Hug Kluber, painted in 1559 and representing "Hans Rudolf Faesch, master goldsmith", present in the Kunstmuseum of Basel as well as on an enamel of Pierre Reymond "Joyeuse assemblée dans un bateau" second third of the XVIth, Louvre Museum. The one we are presenting is in white clay with a brown lead glaze, decorated with flowers, foliage, masks and putti, in the taste of the time. However, it is not the only one, several examples are known: Two, including a smaller one, in the Adrien Dubouché Museum in Limoges (ADL 7611 and 7612) where they are located from Avon; One in the Ceramic Museum of Sevres, fragmentary (MNC 7065). Biblio. Arts et manières de la table. Zeev Gourarier, 1994 Festins de la Renaissance. Exhibition catalogue, Blois 2012 - Quelle gourde ! Centre jurassien du patrimoine 1999
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Bottle with two passages White clay with lead glaze Decor of putti, plants and mascarons. H. 23 cm. Avon, late 16th/early 17th century. The gourd, a container with loops for passing a strap through, is used to carry liquids to quench thirst. It was made of bronze in ancient times, then of glass, ceramic, cucurbits, leather and wood. Apart from the pieces of excavation spreading from the VIth to the XVth century, the first gourds of the typology of ours, in western ceramics having reached us are those with the arms of Antoine Loisel, one presented to the Museum of Ceramics in Sèvres and dated from the first half of the XVIth century, and the other one in stoneware of St Verain with the arms of the Montmorency, in the Louvre. We are leaving here, like the one we are presenting, a tableware intended to be transported, often of rustic workmanship, for a more refined bourgeois tableware, glass being then rare, expensive and accessible only to the nobility. It is astonishing to note that in the iconography of the table and the kitchen, no ceramic gourd is represented at the time, despite the fact that Rabelais praised it in 1545 in his "Bringuenarilles cousin germain de Fessepinte". We find the same type, but in pewter, on the painting of Han Hug Kluber, painted in 1559 and representing "Hans Rudolf Faesch, master goldsmith", present in the Kunstmuseum of Basel as well as on an enamel of Pierre Reymond "Joyeuse assemblée dans un bateau" second third of the XVIth, Louvre Museum. The one we are presenting is in white clay with a brown lead glaze, decorated with flowers, foliage, masks and putti, in the taste of the time. However, it is not the only one, several examples are known: Two, including a smaller one, in the Adrien Dubouché Museum in Limoges (ADL 7611 and 7612) where they are located from Avon; One in the Ceramic Museum of Sevres, fragmentary (MNC 7065). Biblio. Arts et manières de la table. Zeev Gourarier, 1994 Festins de la Renaissance. Exhibition catalogue, Blois 2012 - Quelle gourde ! Centre jurassien du patrimoine 1999
