Fig. 56.—Pilgrim-shaped Grès Bottle, in the British Museum.
The making of this ware was undoubtedly one step by which Böttcher at last succeeded in making true porcelain at Dresden.
Fig. 56 is a pilgrim-bottle, bought at the Bernal sale by the British Museum for eighteen pounds.
At Baireuth were made, in the 1600’s, some very curious mugs, called Apostle-Mugs, because the figures of the twelve apostles were worked in relief around the cup. The clay was a dark-brown, but the dresses of the figures and the inscriptions were painted in colors. Mr. Frederick J. Betts, of New York, has one of these interesting bits of work; they are now hardly ever offered for sale.
Fig. 57.—Brown Graybeard or Bellarmine.