Statuette

This statuette of pipeclay is made in the second half of the 15th century in Siegburg, Germany by an unknown artist.

It represents a man and woman standing in the costume of the period. The man is pouring out of a jug into a bowl held by the woman, who stands at his left side.

The material pipeclay is a fine white clay also used to make tobacco pipes and pottery. Conveniently situated on a major trading route, Siegburg was a centre of ceramic production with well-organised workshops and kilns in which also pipe-clay figures were fired.