A BERLIN-FAIENCE PEWTERMOUNTED WALZENKRUG, (cylindrical tankard) painted in colours with a gallant shepherd seated on a treetrunk, holding a staff flanked by palmtrees, the loop handle hatched, mounted with a flat cover, its sides wrythen-moulded, with large ball thumbpiece finial, incised A.P circa 1755
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A BERLIN-FAIENCE PEWTERMOUNTED WALZENKRUG, (cylindrical tankard) painted in colours with a gallant shepherd seated on a treetrunk, holding a staff flanked by palmtrees, the loop handle hatched, mounted with a flat cover, its sides wrythen-moulded, with large ball thumbpiece finial, incised A.P circa 1755
24 cm high
Lot Essay
cf. W. Schwarze, Alte Deutsche Fayence-Krüge, ill. 844 for a very similar Krug.
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