Why does this jug have a beard—and how does that face survive becoming part of a pot?

This film follows the handwork behind a Bartmann jug: shaping the body, fitting a handle, pressing a face in a negative mold, and joining the clay relief to the vessel. The eyebrows are memorable. The join is doing a lot of the work. The pictures come from a 1979 workshop film in Speicher/Eifel, Germany. They show different objects and batches at separate stages, rather than one continuously tracked jug. The Object Plot — Ordinary objects. Unexpected stories. CHAPTERS 00:00 This jug has eyebrows 00:22 Meet the Bartmann jug 00:44 Building the body 02:10 The handle arrives separately 02:56 A face in reverse 04:36 Trimming and releasing the relief 05:26 Mold vs. clay 05:48 Giving the jug a face 06:51 Before and after firing 08:03 A face that survives the process 08:26 Sources and credits SOURCE FOOTAGE AND LICENSE Adapted from Der Bartmannskrug (1979). LVR-Institut für Landeskunde und Regionalgeschichte / Alltagskulturen im Rheinland. Supplied creator credits: Konrad Grunsky-Peper and Gabriel Simons. Original editing and commentary: Ayten Fadel. Additional original end credits: Amt für rheinische Landeskunde, Bonn; Fritz Langensiepen; Rainer Nagels (camera); Manfred Müller (sound). Official publisher's film:    • Der Bartmannskrug   Wikimedia Commons source and licensing record: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... CHANGES IN THIS ADAPTATION The source is cropped and reframed, its workshop operations are reordered, and selected still frames are compared to explain the negative mold and positive relief. New original English commentary, English subtitles, and an original local instrumental score are added. The original German soundtrack is muted. Original source credits are retained here and in the English credits.