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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Bellarmine, of bottle form, grey stoneware, standing on a slightly spreading foot, integral to the body; the body, globular, rising to a long, tapering neck with corded rim; simple loop handle with v-shaped ridge descending from the lower terminal; the base, rough and with uneven patches of a salt-type residue; the body covered with a heavy greenish-yellowy salt glaze, heavily pooled giving a markedly mottled effect with some traces of an iron-brown wash beneath the glaze to a small area of the upper body and to the handle; to the neck, an applied bearded facemask with grimacing mouth, below this an applied medallion, edged with concentric rings, within this another facemask with shorter beard; the body restored to one side and overpainted in dark brown.
