Jan Emens Mennicken

(b ?Raeren, fl 1568-94; d ?Raeren). Belgian potter. He was the most important potter and producer of stoneware at RAEREN during the period 1568 to 1594. Mennicken manufactured schnellen (tall, tapering tankards) influenced by the stoneware of Sieburg, large bartmannkrugen (jugs with a bearded mask in relief below the neck), which resemble stoneware from Cologne, or wares decorated with biblical, secular and mythological scenes, ornamental motifs, grotesques and armorial bearings (see BELGIUM, fig. 35). Initially Mennicken produced golden-brown stonewares, but c. 1580 he was the first to apply a cobalt-blue glaze to his wares that was later to typify production at the Westerwald potteries in Germany.

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