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A Miniature Aachen or Raeren anthropomorphic stoneware jug and a miniature Raeren jug

THE ANTHROPOMORPHIC JUG: 1520-1550, AND THE RAEREN JUG: CIRCA 1580

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A Miniature Aachen or Raeren anthropomorphic stoneware jug and a miniature Raeren jug
The anthropomorphic jug: 1520-1550, and the Raeren jug: circa 1580
Both with light brown-glazed bulging body: the Gesichtskrug or Puntneus modelled with a bearded male face, 3 cm. high; the other rilled and with a handle, 7.5 cm. high (2)

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Lot Essay

The facial jug was probably in use as a toy.
See: E. Klinge, German Stoneware in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Zwolle, 1996, p. 50 and ill. p. 51 whereby the author states that such facial vessels appear to be the first Rhenish stoneware jugs with masks and that they derive from excavated Roman models.

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