Ewer (Schnabelkanne)
Theodor de Bry
ca. 1595
Medium
Glazed stoneware; pewter
Dimensions
Height: 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Pottery
Culture
German, Siegburg
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1911
Accession Number
11.93.3
Tags
FacesFemale Nudes
About the Artist
Theodor de Bry · 1528–1598
Theodor de Bry was born in 1528 in Liège, in what is now Belgium, into a family of jewelers and engravers. Trained as a goldsmith and copper-plate engraver — skills he refined under his grandfather, Thiry de Bry the Elder — he worked across several European cities before religious persecution forced him into exile. As a Protestant living under Spanish rule in the Southern Netherlands, de Bry was s...