AN ANTISEMITIC CERAMIC TANKARD, painted in beige, brown, green, blue and gilt, set on a circular domed foot decorated in relief with a spread eagle held by a snake on an oak branch, gilt with acorns, the cylindrical body decorated in relief with two borders, the upper one depicting "the misery of the worker caused by the Jews in 1893", inscribed above in German with antisemitic rhymes, the middle border featuring Jews leaving Germany on the way to Jerusalem in 1910, some of the rucksacks inscribed in German with well-known names as Rothschild and Bamberger, interspersed with anti-Jewish slogans and titled Marschroute auf dem geraden Wege nach dem Orient, the lip inscribed in German with the name Jacob Bret, the C-scroll handle decorated with two medallions containing the portraits of Stöcker Hofprediger and Dr. A. König, titled in German, connected with a pewter-mounted scrolled foliate thumbpiece to the domed cover with a ceramic central part, inscribed Heil in German, surrounded by five medallions, each with a portrait of another important German with his name below, signed by Joh. Korzilius Hoflieferant Köln, Cologne, circa 1936 21.5 cm high See illustration