A SGRAFFITO DECORATED REDWARE JAR

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A SGRAFFITO DECORATED REDWARE JAR
POSSIBLY CONRAD MUMBOUER, 1761-1845,HAYCOCK TOWNSHIP, BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, 1794-1844

Cylindrical with flaring rim, glazed in yellow with daubs of green slip and decorated with incised notched tulips-and-vines alternating with budding flowers--6in. high, 5 3/8in. diam.

Provenance

Charlotte and Edgar Sittig, Shawnee-on-Deleware, Pennsylvania, July 20, 1961.

Lot Essay

Two similar examples are now in the Pennsylvaniana German collection of the Phialdelphia Museum of Art and is illustrated in Garvan, page 186 numbers 74 and 75.

This jar is recorded in the Winterhur Library: Decorative Arts Photographic Collection accession number 78.549