Medieval badge - "Pitcher"
Netherlands, 1375-1425
Brass casting. Dimensions: 32 × 18 mm
This small badge in the shape of a jug is probably a good-natured allusion to its owner's fondness for drinking good wine or beer. Similar symbolic or jocular motifs were very popular in the High Middle Ages in the Netherlands, especially among the townspeople and craftsmen.
Badges such as this could be worn at guild festivals, fairs or festivals where drinking played an important social role. They were not only decorative, but often identifying or ironic - they could indicate membership of a particular group, but also serve as a humorous expression of personal preference.
The jug could also be seen as a symbol of hospitality, abundance and good company - values that were highly valued in the bourgeois environment of late medieval towns.
Based on the book 'Sieraad en devotie in middeleeuws Vlaanderen' by Jose Kolderweij.
Brass cast. Dimensions: 32 × 18 mm.
- Made in Ukraine by Armour and Castings
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