A WESTERWALD GLOBULAR JUG glazed in blue and manganese and moulded with a royal equestrian portrait medallion of William of Orange inscribed WILHELMVS.III.D.G.MA.BR.FRA.ET.HI.REX: issuing from incised scrolling stems terminating in a profusion of flowers and buds on a blue ground, the cylindrical reeded neck with a manganese glaze (minor hairline cracks to rim and two minute rim chips), circa 1690

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A WESTERWALD GLOBULAR JUG glazed in blue and manganese and moulded with a royal equestrian portrait medallion of William of Orange inscribed WILHELMVS.III.D.G.MA.BR.FRA.ET.HI.REX: issuing from incised scrolling stems terminating in a profusion of flowers and buds on a blue ground, the cylindrical reeded neck with a manganese glaze (minor hairline cracks to rim and two minute rim chips), circa 1690
28cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. Ekkart Klinge, Deutsche Steinzeug der Renaissance-und Barockzeit, p. 72 for a flask also with a medallion of William of Orange

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