A RAEREN ARMORIAL SIGNED BROWN-GLAZED STONEWARE JUG by Jan Emens with bulbous body and cylindrical reeded neck, the central band moulded with the Arms perhaps of the Order of Orange Nassau on a shield with the motto PACE· ET· JUSTITIA· and with the initials I E above flanked by the inscription LYFDEUI·GEIT·BOV PEISIISICK·ICKBEIS(?)/EISI·ALE·DEISICK.SOE·LYF EISI SOE/ISIIEISE·SPRICKT·DIE·WERT·DAT·IDER·GER between radiating bands of ribbed panels to the shoulder and lower part (chips to rim and slight chips to raised bands), circa 1580

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A RAEREN ARMORIAL SIGNED BROWN-GLAZED STONEWARE JUG by Jan Emens with bulbous body and cylindrical reeded neck, the central band moulded with the Arms perhaps of the Order of Orange Nassau on a shield with the motto PACE· ET· JUSTITIA· and with the initials I E above flanked by the inscription LYFDEUI·GEIT·BOV PEISIISICK·ICKBEIS(?)/EISI·ALE·DEISICK.SOE·LYF EISI SOE/ISIIEISE·SPRICKT·DIE·WERT·DAT·IDER·GER between radiating bands of ribbed panels to the shoulder and lower part (chips to rim and slight chips to raised bands), circa 1580
20cm. high

Lot Essay

Perhaps made to commemorated the Peace of Gent in 1577, when a medal similar to the 'coin' on the jug was made to the order of the senior commanders of the Netherlands army. Only three other examples appear to be recorded; one in the Figdor Collection, see the Catalogue, fig. 17, the other belonging to the Suermondt-Ludwig Museum in Aachen, see H. Hellebrandt, Raerener Steinzeug, pl. 84 and another sold by Sotheby's on 17 March 1987, lot 138

The inscription reads 'Love goes before everything, no says the penny, I am so precious and so dear that I am preferred by all', see M. Kohnemann, Auslangen aus Raeren Steinzeug, p. 238 where he translates the text into modern German

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