CIRCA 1603

Details

A small Raeren pewter-mounted dated armorial stoneware jug
Circa 1603
(Kurfürstenkrug) covered in a light brown glaze, the cylindrical body moulded in relief with a frieze showing an arcade with half-length figures of the electors holding their coat of arms, one dated 1603, the shoulders and lower half with floral motifs, the neck with a frieze showing ornate scrollwork and medallions enclosing masks, with loop handle, the hinged terraced pewter cover connected with shell-shaped thumbpiece to the handle (hairline crack ending in restored chip to the upper rim)
21cm high

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The electors (Kurfürsten) were the seven German princes entitled to elect the German king; the archbishops of Mainz, Trier and Cologne, the king of Bohemia (in 1602 Rudolf II, the Holy Roman Emperor), the Count Palatine of the Rhine, the Duke of Saxony and the Margrave of Brandenburg. This theme was very popular around 1600 and was often represented in glassware.

Cf. G. Reineking-von Bock, Kataloge des Kunstgewerbemuseums Köln, Band IV, Steinzeug (Cologne 1976), p.245 ill.363
E. Klinge, Duits Steengoed, German Stoneware, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (Zwolle 1996), p.76 ill.33 for other examples of Kurfürstenkrugen.

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