CIRCA 1665

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A PEWTER-MOUNTED FREIBERG SALTGLAZE STONEWARE BIRNKRUG
CIRCA 1665
With a central band of joined oval Kerbschnitt panels between enamelled chequered lozenges and moulded cherub heads enriched in gilding, the lower part with further D-shaped Kerbschnitt panels, the hinged cover embossed and tooled with a flower and with a linked double-ball thumbpiece

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Lot Essay

A birnkrug of identical form and decoration, but without the enamelled and gilt decoration, is illustrated by Ekkart Klinge, Deutsches Steinzeug der Renaissance- und Barockzeit, Hetjens Museum September – November 1979 Exhibition Catalogue, Düsseldorf, 1979, p. 147, no. 289, where it notes that the mount is dated 1666.

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