1583, PROBABLY RAEREN

Details

A GERMAN BROWN SALTLGAZE STONEWARE DATED JUG
1583, PROBABLY RAEREN
Moulded with dancing peasants below an inscription, between gadrooned section, the cylindrical neck moulded with portrait busts in profile to the left and right within oval panels
22 cm. high

Provenance

With Peter Tillou, Litchfield, Connecticut.

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Lot Essay

The groups of revelling couples on the present jug are inspired by a series of prints, 'The Peasant Festival', Das Bauernfest, by Siebold Bayham, published in Nuremberg 1546/7. See David Gaimster, German Stoneware, 1200-1900, Archaeology and Cultural History, London, 1997, pp. 238-240, no. 92 for a jug from 1576 with related scenes.

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