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It’s characteristic of late sixteenth-century production: the bright red colour \nwas only used from 1560 onwards. \nThe jug was exported to Elizabethan London where, in 1592/3, it was fitted with fashionable silver-gilt mounts to protect its edges. \nAlthough it’s shaped like a jug, it was actually meant for drinking ale or beer. As a French visitor remarked in 1558, the English drank \nbeer “not out of glasses but from earthen pots with silver handles and covers and this even in houses of persons of middling fortune”.\nIznikware examples such as this were expensive luxury items used only by the upper classes. The less affluent had to make do with \nGerman stoneware imports, or English earthenware ones. The sliver mount has been pricked with the initials ‘E T’. \nThese are almost certainly the initials of Elizabeth Tollemache, a very powerful and well-educated woman, who lived at Ham House, \nSurrey from 1655 until her death in 1699. \n\n## Interactive Hotspots (100 words each max)\n\n### Story 1: A treasured possession\nThe identity of the first owner of this jug is unknown, but he or she must have valued it very highly to have it mounted with \ngilded silver.  The handle-mount was subsequently pricked with the letters ‘E T’, almost certainly the initials of Elizabeth \nTollemache, Countess of Dysart. She may have inherited the jug from her father, William Murray along with the family home, \nHam House, where the jug remained a treasured possession until 1948. \n\n### Story 2: Historical ambivalence between East and West\nBritish attitudes to Turks were ambivalent in the 16th and 17th centuries. As contact between the Ottoman Empire and England increased, \nthe Turk became a common and stereotypically villainous figure on the British stage. A reference in Shakespeare’s Othello to a \n‘malignant and turban’d Turk… the circumcis’d dog’ is typically abusive. This attitude was based upon the long-standing antipathy \nbetween the Islamic East and the Christian West.\n\n### Story 3: Fascination with the Orient\nNear Eastern material culture was highly valued in Elizabethan England. In early 1582, diplomacy between the English court and that \nof the Ottoman Sultan Murad III led to the founding of The Turkish Company – later called The Levant Company – which facilitated trade \nbetween Turkey and England.\n\n### Story 4: \tA burst of colour\nThe design is typical of 16th century Iznikware, with red hyacinths and cobalt blue pomegranates standing out against a clean, bright, white background. The brilliant colours were the innovation of Turkish artists who had previously imitated the blue-on-white decoration of Chinese porcelain. \nThe stylised vegetation was intended to evoke the miracle of Allah’s creations, with Muslims believing pomegranate trees to be holy. Iznik tiles with floral decoration were, and still are, made to decorate the interiors of mosques.\n\t\t\n# Red-figure neck amphora \n\nEra: Ancient Greece c. 480-470 BC\nOriginal Location: Athens \nMaterial:  Clay\nDimensions: 34cm high x 22.4cm wide\n\nThis red-figured vessel was made in Athens c. 480 BC - 470 BC. On one side you can see the hero Theseus performing one of his twelve \nlabours and about to kill the Attic villain, Procrustes, who attacked travellers. Procrustes’ gruesome method was to force strangers to \nlie down on a bed and then he would either hammer his victims to lengthen them or chop their extremities to make them fit the bed. \n\nThe drama of his own punishment is heightened in this somewhat hasty drawing by the fact that the deed is not quite done. The \naxe-wielding Theseus has wounded Procrustes who struggles to protect himself with an inoffensive-looking hammer. Theseus was also \na king, credited with creation a union of Attic communities under the leadership of Athens.\n\nThe other side of the amphora shows the amorous advance of the dawn deity, Eos, upon the handsome youth, Tithonos, who she later \narranged to have immortalised. However, having forgotten to seek eternal youth for him, she eventually shut the chattering old man \nup in a bed-chamber.\n\n## Interactive Hotspots (100 words each max)\n\n### Story 1: The painting technique\n\nIn the late 6th century BC, the technical development in Greek vase design saw pot painters applying black glaze for the background and \nusing the reserve red ground from the iron-rich clay for the figures. This reversing of media is termed red-figure painting. \nThe advantage for the artisan was that he could paint in outline, filling in the background afterwards. For a while, black- and \nred-figure painting co-existed, but the red-figure technique became more commonplace.\n\n### Story 2: Eos, the goddess of the dawn\n\nEos, goddess of the dawn and daughter of Hyperion and the Titaness Theia, was goddess of the dawn, responsible for the rising of the \nsun each morning. She is sometimes shown driving a chariot. She had the misfortune to be cursed by Aphrodite to fall for lots of young \nmen.  \n\nOn this vase she is seen advancing upon the handsome youth Tithonos, who she later arranged to have immortalised. However, having \nforgotten to seek eternal youth for him, she eventually shut the chattering old man up in a bed-chamber.\n\n### Story 3: \nThe subject on one side of the vase is the hero Theseus performing one of his twelve labours and about to kill the Attic Villain,\nProcrustes, who attacked travellers.  Procrustes forced strangers to lie down on a bed and then would either hammer his victims to \nlengthen them or chop their extremities, to make them fit the bed.  \n\n\n\n\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Ffitzwilliammuseum%2Fcivilisations3d","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Ffitzwilliammuseum%2Fcivilisations3d","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Ffitzwilliammuseum%2Fcivilisations3d/lists"}