Antique 16th-17th C Medieval BELLARMINE Bartmann Stoneware Jug Witch Bottle yqz

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Antique 16th-17th C Medieval BELLARMINE Bartmann Stoneware Jug Witch Bottle yqz:
$465.00

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In this sale we have an estate found rare three faced antique Bellarmine Bartmann Jug, possibly a witch bottle. We think from the way the faces are hand made that this is one of the earliest we have ever seen, circa 16th or 17th Century. But... that is our best educated guess. Normally these type of jugs do not have three faces and normally the faces are on top and the medallion on the bottom. This one has some restoration, a portion of the lip was long ago sealed back in place. It\'s also missing the handle but still a really cool piece of European history!This antique art pottery jug measures approximately 7\" high and 5.25\" across in diameter from the widest points. We do not see a maker\'s mark so we can\'t identify who made it. If you\'re a collector or familiar with this unique jug please feel free to share with us. Please be sure to check out all of the pictures we provide so that you will get the most detail about this sale. Best of luck offerding to you!For your

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enjoyment here is a brief history about Bellermines and how they began as found on This Day in Pottery History site: (great site!)In 1610 Cardinal Maffeo Berberini received a copy of “The Starry Messenger” by Galileo Galilei. This treatise on observations Galileo made with his newly invented telescope forever changed our understanding of the universe. Berberini was impressed. He befriended the Florentine astronomer. Galileo must have been pleased, because the Cardinal became Pope Urban VIII in 1616. Galileo was invited to the Vatican to discuss his fascinating new discoveries. But church bigwigs got nervous. They told Urban in no uncertain terms that Galileo was, in fact, challenging God and Church. Pope Urban ignored what he knew to be right and acquiesced to the powers that put him, and kept him, in the Holy See.The heat came in the form of Cardinal Roberto Bellarmino, the “hammer of the heretics.” The Roman Inquisition had recently burned Giordano Bruno, a Dominican Friar who suggested the Earth revolved around the Sun. But Bellarmino let Galileo go with a warning. When Galileo defended his ideas in “The Assayer,” Bellarmino put his foot down. Galileo was forced to recant his discoveries. Scientific inquiry took 300 years to recover. Galileo went to his grave muzzled by the strictures of the Cardinal. And Bellarmino went on to fight the Reformation in the Low Countries.People began associating the Cardinal’s name with the widely popular “bartmann,” a salt fired stoneware jug with a greybeard face applied to its side. The bartmann had been made in Germany’s Rhineland pottery district since the previous century. (We think this might be one of those ones from the previous century.) But why associate Bellarmino with this jug? Was it sarcasm? Endearment? Who knows? The name “Bellarmine Jug” stuck, though. What’s more, as the jug’s popularity spread, all sorts of notions began attaching themselves to it. Liquids kept in it could heal the sick. Witchcraft could be warded off by keeping one buried under the housHere is an article on witch bottles from off the chesterfieldpagans org site:

Witch Bottles or Witch Jars are a European, and especially English, tradition of warding off malevolent attention, and directing it away from your house and grounds. There is some discussion about whether they are used as a general preventative, or as a response to a specific threat aimed against an individual or property. Simply, a Witch bottle is a small bottle that has certain items placed into it before being sealed and buried. Often these items include sharp things such as pins, nails, razor blades, fish hooks or barbed wire, some will state that iron nails are an absolute must, others that any metal object which is sharp and pointy will do just fine. Personal samples are often also included, such as nail clippings, human hair and also the infamous inclusion of human urine.

More than 200 Witch Bottles have been rediscovered to date, sadly only a few have their seals and contents. The tradition began around 1500, reaching it’s height around 1600, tailing off until about 1850-ish. The bottles themselves were either ceramic bottles, up to 9″tall, often used for other things before being transformed into a witch bottle. Other examples have been found to be glass wine bottles, sealed in the same manner and often with similar contents. Frequently buried under the hearthstone or doorstep, witch bottles have also been found plastered into walls, in attics, behind fireplaces and buried in gardens. People went to great lengths to hide their witch bottles, their presence only being discovered when the house was demolished or extensively redesigned. Generally the bottle is placed on a focus point in the house or grounds, an entranceway or point at which any hostile intentions would most likely pass through or by. The presence of a witch bottle would deflect the malevolent intentions back to their sender and you and yours would remain unharmed. Alternatively, the bottle would ensnare and hold negative energies directed at you. After the deflection, some sources say that the bottle should explode, its power spent, and others that the bottle remains intact to continue its work.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries witch jars often had faces stamped in the glass or stoneware. Originally known as Bartmannkrüge (Bearded-man jugs), the jugs were renamed in Germany and the Low Countries after the bearded Inquisitor Robert Bellarminein (one of the Roman Catholic leaders of the counter-reformation – read: very unpopular in Protestant England and Germany at the time) who first appeared on them in the Netherlands, but equivalents were made all over Europe.

Of around 200 English witch-bottles on record, 130 are ‘Bellarmines’. Of the contents which are identifiable, by far the most common was iron pins or nails (95%). The second most common was human hair (25%). Another ingredient which is very difficult to test for if the bottle has leaked at any point is urine. Roughly 25% of those with contents have been tested for the presence of urine and all proved positive. So, we have iron, urine and hair as the most common ingredients. Other ingredients such as small bones, thorns, pieces of wood and, in a few cases, pieces of fabric cut into the shape of a heart are sometimes found. The original jars included the face of a bearded man, and some modern practitioners advise the inclusion of a face on the surface of the bottle, either painted on or made as part of the jar, this was to represent the individual who desired protection, and some view the face on the jar as a decoy for the victim, so that any negative energies found the bottle and mistook it for the target instead.

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