Jug of a journeyman from the Gradec Boot-Makers' Guild

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    Zagreb
    1721
    Tin
    height 45.2 cm

    Jug with a lid and a bow-shaped handle. Cylinder-like surface forged in hexagonal planes, with small legs in the shape of sitting lions. The same motif reappears on the lid. The jug has an inscription engraved on it: Janus Jurjevchich Dekan mester / Plemenitoga Czeha Sostarszkoga / Otecz Mester Mattiahas Subich / y Vesz Ceh je pomogel / napraviti ovu Kantu 1721. Mihal Stupuszin Biar M. The central facet has a wreath on it, and to the left the following inscription: Mihal Szmerien Dekan Mester postenem Mladencze/m/ sostarszkem Tomas Ladich Mlaszi Vicze Dekan.

    Donated by the First Workers' Society in Zagreb at the end of the 19th or the beginning of the 20th century.

    M. Sercer, Stari zagrebacki obrti, Zagreb, 1991, catalogue number 469.


    HPM/PMH-000962


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