a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century)
source: WordNet 3.0
A stoneware jug of a pattern originated in the neighborhood of Cologne, Germany, in the 16th century. It has a bearded face or mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also graybeard, longbeard.
