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Lot Essay
Glüer was working as a painter for the Nürnberg factory between 1719 and 1730. Only few works of him are known to have survived.
See H. Bosch, Deutsche Fayencekrüge des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Mainz, 1983, pp. 64-69, no. 19-21 for three Enghalskannen; further A. Klein, Deutsche Fayencen, Braunschweig, 1975, p. 165, ill. 173 for a biblical charger in the Hetjensmuseum, Düsseldorf. Klein also mentions a helmet jug in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg.
Johann Jakob Marx (1724-1783) was a master craftsman in Nürnberg from 1752 onwards. See E. Hintze, Die deutschen Zinngiesser und ihre Marken, vol. II, Nürnberger Zinngiesser, Aalen, 1964, no. 418.
We wish to thank Dr. Silvia Glaser, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg for her kind help with this research.
The episode of the tax penny is recorded by the gospel according to Matthew (22, 15- 22). The Pharisees wanting to entrap Jesus in speech asked him whether it was rightful to pay the census tax to Caesar. By answering yes Jesus would have taken side against the pious, by answering no, against the Roman occupying forces. Knowing the malice of the Pharisees, Jesus replied to them: "Show me the coin that pays the census tax." and they handed him the Roman coin. He showed them the coin and asked them: "Whose image is this and whose inscription?" They replied: "Caesar's." At that Jesus said to them, ''Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's"
See H. Bosch, Deutsche Fayencekrüge des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Mainz, 1983, pp. 64-69, no. 19-21 for three Enghalskannen; further A. Klein, Deutsche Fayencen, Braunschweig, 1975, p. 165, ill. 173 for a biblical charger in the Hetjensmuseum, Düsseldorf. Klein also mentions a helmet jug in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg.
Johann Jakob Marx (1724-1783) was a master craftsman in Nürnberg from 1752 onwards. See E. Hintze, Die deutschen Zinngiesser und ihre Marken, vol. II, Nürnberger Zinngiesser, Aalen, 1964, no. 418.
We wish to thank Dr. Silvia Glaser, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg for her kind help with this research.
The episode of the tax penny is recorded by the gospel according to Matthew (22, 15- 22). The Pharisees wanting to entrap Jesus in speech asked him whether it was rightful to pay the census tax to Caesar. By answering yes Jesus would have taken side against the pious, by answering no, against the Roman occupying forces. Knowing the malice of the Pharisees, Jesus replied to them: "Show me the coin that pays the census tax." and they handed him the Roman coin. He showed them the coin and asked them: "Whose image is this and whose inscription?" They replied: "Caesar's." At that Jesus said to them, ''Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's"