Jars

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Pictured on various VMS pages are what are taken by most to be jars. Others see things like early Fifteenth Century microscopes and telescopes.

There are legs on some of the VMS jar images.

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Does anyone have any proof of the existence and/or knowledge of the composition of such jars or containers with legs in the early Fifteenth Century or before?

This may be a topic someone else has already reported on somewhere. If so, I would appreciate directions to those results.

Only footed jars/vessels/containers/whatever from before 1500 need be reported on. I've got lots of pictures of jars without feet.

Thank you.

Don of Tallahassee

Ornate footed jars were more common in France in the 16th century and beyond than most places and France eventually became world renowned for their ormolu items. Ornate footed jars were not especially common anywhere in the 15th century (production of this kind of item increased in the Renaissance and post-Renaissance periods). In the 15th century and earlier, it was generally the very wealthy who had this kind of item.

Candlesticks in a number of countries had feet and some were quite ornate. When looking at VMS jars, I try not to assume that they are real-life jars (they might be, but we don't know). Since these are drawings, not photographs, they may have been inspired by candlesticks, finials, or other ornamental objects and drawn in a more decorative way than they appeared in life.