The Portable Antiquities Scheme
POST MEDIEVAL VESSEL
1530
A saltglaze vessel sherd from a Rhenish flagon of circa AD1530-AD1570. The sherd consists of a male portrait roundel. In Ivor Noel Humes book, If These Pots Could Talk, Page 119 there is a illustration of a Rhenish flagon depicting a benign graybeard mask ("male portrait roundels") and acanthus fronds with a inscription horizontally midway on the pot which reads: FVR EINEN GOTEN DRUVNCK. translates as ( hooray for a good drink) .Height of sherd: 24.03 mm. Width: 22.99 mm. Thickness: 4.15 mm. Weight: 2.840 grams.
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