A GERMAN FAYENCE HAUSMALEREI PEWTER-MOUNTED TANKARD (WALZENKRUG)

CIRCA 1700, DECORATED AT NUREMBERG, PROBABLY BY ABRAHAM HELMHACK, THE PEWTER MOUNTS LATER

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A GERMAN FAYENCE HAUSMALEREI PEWTER-MOUNTED TANKARD (WALZENKRUG)
CIRCA 1700, DECORATED AT NUREMBERG, PROBABLY BY ABRAHAM HELMHACK, THE PEWTER MOUNTS LATER
With a ropetwist handle, painted in schwartzlot with St. Jerome in the desert within a heart-shaped scroll cartouche with two female masks and diaper panels, the hinged pewter cover engraved T. P. above the date 1801 within tied laurel braches (crack to body running across painted panel, glaze flaking to handle, damage and repairs to mounts)
10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm.) high overall

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Lot Essay

Abraham Helmhack (1654-1724) was an accomplished engraver and decorator in enamels who worked on glass and tin-glazed earthenware in Nuremberg in the last quarter of the 17th century and early part of the 18th century. For a detailed discussion of his work and illustrations of two Frankfurt fayence jugs decorated in a very similar manner to the present lot, see Helmut Bosch, Die Nürnberger hausmaler, Munich, 1984, pp. 258-259, nos.188 and 189, and pp. 511-517 for a biography, including a self-portrait engraving and illustrations of engraved folio pages (pp. 512-513) with scrolling foliage that is closely related in style to that on the present lot.

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