Jugs

These containers were used for the transporting and distributing liquid were always in use during the Middle Ages. Characteristic is a drawn in neck. They always possess a handle and a foot, a ring or other supports for standig upright. Jugs penetrated from the islamic world into the Central Europe from the 11th century onwards. In Siegburg they seem to arise in the late 12th century, in the Pingsdorfer area around 1200. Jugs are worked on the turntable. The lower part of the older copies is handformed, the top is turned on the disk. The larger the handformed part, the older that jug will be.

Cans

The substantial difference to the jug is the presence of a drain. Either this is trained a lip by Ausweíten of the edge of lip, by a bill set at the edge or by a sleeve in form of a set tube. As early form of the jug pots were provided with a sleeve.
Sleeve cans occur in the view area more rarely. Small lips, which are partly so weakly formed out, are more frequent that one can differentiate only heavily a can from the jug.

Double handle cans / sleeve cans

We find usually spherical or egg-shaped containers for pouring liquids in different sizes. They have wave foot, one small sleeve on the shoulder and besides two or three volume handles.

Pots

By this all containers with relatively far opening fall for cooking and keeping. The pot form is different after region. In the Rhine country the spherical container without space occupied was dominating in the Middle Ages - the ball pot. It was set probably directly into the glow. As vorratsgefaess at it a curved condition ring was attached. The pot can also have or two handles, grasps or a handle. In the environment of Bruehl ball pots without or with a grasp dominate. Bruehl is well-known beside Pingsdorf for particularly large ball pots. In the Rhine country ball pots are most frequent from the 11. to prove to 14.Jahrhundert.

Grapen are pots with three legs and two handles, at which a handle or a chain was attached for hanging up.

Cup

We find predominantly drinking containers without handles in large form varieties, whose larger copies are suitable however also than vorratsgefaesse. In particular the roller cups were not used (only) as drinking cups, rather for keeping surely not only of liquids They are little bulged out, have turning grooves, a wave foot and always a collar lip.

Cups

It concerns containers with handle, which admits in the view area longer is than jugs. Probably they served for drinking mainly warm beverages. If they have the form of small pots with curved handle for holding, which runs out pointedly in the early Middle Ages frequently, they are in the high Middle Ages rather like low small jugs worked, partly also with three Standknubben/Beinen. The early forms are assigned Paffrath. Into the Vorgebirge and victory castle cups step into 12. Century up.

(drinking-) bowls

It concerns here flat (tri k) containers with narrow foot. After L Jansen, 1999 almost exclusively pieces from victory castle / Aulgassse are and only from fully developed stoneware well-known as earliest copies, which he at the earliest that 2. Quarter one 14. Century assigns. In accordance with G. Krueger, 2000, was found in Bruehl however bowls, the these into the 2.Haelfte 13. Century dates. In earlier illustrations (e.g. the carpet of Bayeux) flat foot bowls are to be seen, which apparent not only when drinking containers serve.

Bottles

of containers the transport of liquids with relative to small opening, in order these easily lock or to take off to be able. In the Middle Ages they are always bulged out. If a bottle is to be hung up e.g. at the belt, it without the otherwise usual wave foot one worked (canteen or Pilgerfla).

Dishes

one in such a way designates containers in different sizes for Aufti and waiving meals. They drew in more deeply than plates but not as deeply as pots and at their top margin not or only easily. Medieval dishes are usually bulgy with thickened edge. Rarely they have grasps or handles or a drain lip, mostly however condition ring or space occupied.

(fish -) Braeter / fat pans

An oblong-oval form of the flat dish, which has two handles frequently at the long side in or and at the narrow side a drain (lip). Sometimes also small Standfues is attached. For the sealing of the Scherbens is applied, usually on the Inenseite a lead glaze in uneven yellow and green tones.

Container covers

Covers rather represent an exception in the Middle Ages. There are different flat or bell-shaped forms. On some finds it is unclear whether the were kiln supports (intermediate sets) or cups. Cologne City Museum has a fragment of a cover from nearly stoneware with paintings in Pingsdorfer type in display. It is unknown for which type of container this was used.