Resources in English

Bartmann Jugs from the Gulf of Finland and Their Role in Dating Shipwrecks (2025)

Mehler, Natascha. 2025. "Bartmann Jugs from the Gulf of Finland and Their Role in Dating Shipwrecks". In Shattered and Scattered Pasts. Festschrift for Professor Georg Haggrén, herausgegeben von Tuuli Heinonen, Frida Ehrnsten, Janne Harjula, Tarja Knuutinen, Tanja Ratilainen, Elina Terävä, Siiri Tuomenoja, und Janne Haarala. ARCHAEOLOGIA MEDII AEVI FINLANDIAE, XXXI. Vaasa: Waasa Graphics.

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From the wheel to the world; The journey of Rhenish stoneware (2024)

Christoph Keller, Natascha Mehler, Christian Röser, Michael Schmauder (eds) From the wheel to the world; The journey of Rhenish stoneware, Bonner Beiträge zur Vor- und Frühgeschichtlichen Archäologie.

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Chapter list

  1. Christian Röser.
    The metamorphosis of objects between function and symbolism - as illustrated by the example of Rhenish stoneware
     
  2. Sören Pfeiffer
    Simply a tableware? Thoughts on the use of highly decorated Renaissance stoneware
     
  3. Christoph Keller
    The production of Bartmann jugs in 16th Century Rhineland and beyond 
     
  4. Gen Mitsuishi
    Initial research on 16th Century stoneware production in Bonn-Lengsdorf 
     
  5. Sophie Challe and Marisa Pirson
    Bartmann jugs produced in Chätelet and Bouffioulx from the 15th to the 17th Century 
     
  6. Lyn Blackmore and Jacqui Pearce
    Rhenish influences on earthenware and stoneware production in England
     
  7. Torbjörn Brorsson
    Tracing clay deposits and pottery Workshops the importance of combining archaeology with ICP-MA/ES analyses 
     
  8. Christian Hillen
    Like a spider in the web Cologne as a European trade hub 
     
  9. Erik Odegard
    Bearded men abroad: Rhenish stoneware and Dutch overseas expansion, 1590-ca.1800 
     
  10. David Gaimster
    Reflections on Rhenish stoneware as a global artefact and signature of Europeanisation
     
  11. Lana Chologauri
    Imported and local imitations of Bartmann jugs and German stoneware in Georgia
     
  12. Beverly A. Straube
    Faces from the past: Bartmann jugs in 17th Century Virginia
     
  13. Antonia Malan
    Rhenish stonewares at the Cape of Good Hope: Intercontinental spread of mundane but necessary objects
     
  14. Annette Zeischka-Kenzler
    The cultural adaption of Westerwald stoneware in West Africa 215

A Short Guide to Rhenish Stoneware of the 16th and 17th Century (2024)

Keller, Christoph. A Short Guide to Rhenish Stoneware of the 16th and 17th Century. Bonn: Zenodo, 2024.

Access at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14142292.

Also available in the following languages:

French - Petit guide du grès rhénan des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Access at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14171066.

Italian - Una breve guida al gres renano dei secoli XVI e XVII. Access at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14170855.

Greek - Σύντομος οδηγός για συμπαγή κεραμικά του 16ου και 17ου αιώνα της Ρηνανίας. Access at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14170954.

Global Distribution Map of Rhenish Stoneware during the 16th to 18th Century (2023).

Christoph Keller, Global Distribution Map of Rhenish Stoneware during the 16th to 18th Century. Bonn, Zenodo, 2023.

Access at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7516266

MOLA: Unstoppering a 17th-century 'witch bottle' at the Pitt Rivers Museum (2021)

This video was produced as part of ‘Bottles concealed and revealed’, a three-year project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to recalibrate understandings of the phenomenon of mid-late 17th century ‘witch bottles’ in England, led by Nigel Jeffries.

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Resources in German (Ressourcen auf Deutsch)

Ein Exportschlager aus dem Rheinland. Die Bartmannkrüge der Frühen Neuzeit (2024)

Röser, Christian. 2024. „Ein Exportschlager aus dem Rheinland. Die Bartmannkrüge der Frühen Neuzeit“. LUX - das magazin des lvr-landesmuseums bonn 2024 (1): 24–29.

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