Peervormige pot met een grijs glazuur

About this artwork

Gedrukt peervormige pot van steengoed, met een gecraqueleerd grijs glazuur. Twee chips in de rand, waarvan een gerestaureerd.

Art Historical Context

This delicate pear-shaped pot, crafted anonymously around 1600–1699, exemplifies everyday stoneware pottery from the early modern period. Standing just 5.7 cm high and wide, its compact form—wheel-thrown on a potter lathe ("draaien" in Dutch)—suggests it was designed for practical use, perhaps as a small container for spices, inks, or personal items. The pot's surface bears a printed decoration under a distinctive gray glaze that has developed a craquelé, or fine network of cracks, adding a textured, aged patina over time. The gray glaze, a hallmark of durable stoneware production in 17th-cen...

About the Artist

anonymous

In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...