I'm firing historical replica #pottery at the #kiln. This is a bisque firing session: I will fire most of the pots again in the #woodkiln and/or with glaze. Which one of these pots do you like best?
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#livinghistory #reenactment #archeology #history
Janneke 
@Aebele ik word hier heel hebberig van 
@archeokluit hihi, oops.
@Aebele Can't choose between the deer and what I think is The Green Man (brown clay with face). 
@HeyLaiverd tough choice. Do you mean the angry jugs right beside the deer? They are Bartmann jugs, made after 17th century originals. There are many different kinds of Bartmann jugs. In the ceramics museum in Frechen I saw one from the 16th century that looked indeed like a green man, with some kind of leaves instead of a beard.
@Aebele Bartmann jugs. German origin. I'd translate it as "man with beard" but I'm no etymologist. 
Don't know if Green Man also has a German equivalent. 
But now that you call it "angry jug" I'm going to go for the deer. 
Beautifully made though, all of these. 
@HeyLaiverd that's the correct translation. I looked up the German wikipedia page about the Grüner Mann. It turns out the green man can be found in plenty of places in Germany, in architectural decorations for example.
Stlex 
@Aebele that deer one is so awesome
@infernusgoatus thank you
@Aebele The deer is so fun! Do you know how the historical process differs from the contemporary one?
@jeanv The clay would have been dug and cleaned by hand (I use commercial clay). I made the Thrown parts on an electric wheel instead of a hand- driven wheel (I mare a medieval kickwheel for myself but only use it for demos). It would have been fired in a wood kiln (I only employ my wood kiln when the pottery really needs it) and the glaze would have been leadglaze. I don't use leadglaze because it's bad in many ways and forbidden on tableware. I will use a lookalike glaze without lead instead.