Hoop-handled jar

Kröning in Lower Bavaria (?), ca 1880 (?)

Earthenware with splashed decoration

34,5 x 19,5 cm

Inv.-Nr. 70/49

Acquired in 1970 from the Paul Stieber Collection, Munich

Gallery 128

The decoration was randomly splashed on to the jar with a broom made of birch twigs, a process which necessitated working quickly. Speed was one of the main reasons why splashed decoration was so popular in Kröning, Lower Bavaria. Jars with hoop handles were used for carrying food, for instance to farm-hands in the fields. Their use by the poor when begging for food led to them generally being dubbed 'Bettelhafen' [begging pots].

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