A polychrome Brussels faience commemorative 'musical design' jug, 19th C. -- Description: H 19 cmÊ This is one of the rarest known pieces of Brussels faience, bearing the names of seven composers around a violin in the central medallion. Five names are inscribed in the medallion on one side, two of which are part of the Stevens family of potters. A mug with a nearly identical design is in the collection of a direct offspring of HŽliodore Stevens, one of the principal 19th C. Brussels faience painters.Ê Literature: Paul Vosters Jaquet, Brusselse Faience 1783-1866, pp. 297-301, where the jug is attributed to HŽliodore Stevens and dated between 1837 and 1840.