Statuette

This statuette of pipeclay in made in the middle of the 16th century in Siegburg, Germany by an unknown artist and represents the standing figure of an ecclesiastic.

He wears a beretta and a cloak; in his right hand is a rosary and in his left a book.

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.