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German “bearded man” stoneware jugs are known to have been used in seventeenth-century America. Stoneware is fired at a higher temperature than earthenware, hot enough to make the clay vitrify or change into a glasslike substance, resulting in a nonporous ceramic body. Thus, stoneware jugs made ideal long-term storage containers.
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Title: Bellarmine jug
Date: 1660–80
Culture: probably German, Frechen
Medium: Salt-glazed stoneware
Dimensions: Height: 8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm)
Classification: Ceramics-Pottery
Credit Line: Gift of M. Harris, 1910
Object Number: 10.113
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