Faience Pilgrim Flask

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Culture: France. | Material: Ceramic; Pottery; Earthenware (tin-glazed). | Accession No: MG 111. | Current Location: The Hunt Museum Limerick. | Dimensions (cm): H 24 x W (at base) 12. Description: A flask of a pilgrim, white-glazed, with four carrying handles and narrow neck. It is decorated in green, blue and yellow with a picture of an archbishop or saint with a crozier and a halo behind his head. He is in the act of blessing. He stands in a landscape with two volcanic hills behind him. The scene is surrounded by a scrolled frame. The remainder of the flask is decorated with flowers, leaves and linear decoration. Date Made: 17th century AD