A PSEUDO-RAEREN JAN EMENS STONEWARE DATED ARMORIAL SINGLEHANDLED JUG (Wappenkrug), the brown-glazed flattened globular jug applied with three large circular coat-of-arms, two with the coat-of-arms of W.E. von Bassen, depicting a squire on horseback surrounded by elaborate mantling and dated 1594, inscribed I.E. probably for Jan Emens, the central coat-of-arms depicting a large peacock surmounting mantling and an escutcheon with another peacock, inscribed 1594, C and K, with cylindrical ribbed neck, with loop handle (a chip to the neck)

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A PSEUDO-RAEREN JAN EMENS STONEWARE DATED ARMORIAL SINGLEHANDLED JUG (Wappenkrug), the brown-glazed flattened globular jug applied with three large circular coat-of-arms, two with the coat-of-arms of W.E. von Bassen, depicting a squire on horseback surrounded by elaborate mantling and dated 1594, inscribed I.E. probably for Jan Emens, the central coat-of-arms depicting a large peacock surmounting mantling and an escutcheon with another peacock, inscribed 1594, C and K, with cylindrical ribbed neck, with loop handle (a chip to the neck)
19 cm high

Lot Essay

cf. M. Kohnemann, Auflagen auf Raerener Steinzug, p.16-17, for the Von Bassen coat-of-arms

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