A POSSIBLY SCHREZHEIM FAIENCE DATED PEWTERMOUNTED BIBLICAL SINGLE HANDLED WALZENKRUG, (tankard), the cylindrical body painted in colours (in Muffelfarben), depicting Saint Martin on horseback, wearing Roman garments and cutting a part of his cloak, a beggar beside him, inscribed St. Martinus Patronus, and dated 1702, the pewter cover embossed with shells, surmounted with a coin depicting the Crucifixion, inscribed in German, connected to the handle with a globular thumbpiece, (with a hairline crack), early 18th Century
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A POSSIBLY SCHREZHEIM FAIENCE DATED PEWTERMOUNTED BIBLICAL SINGLE HANDLED WALZENKRUG, (tankard), the cylindrical body painted in colours (in Muffelfarben), depicting Saint Martin on horseback, wearing Roman garments and cutting a part of his cloak, a beggar beside him, inscribed St. Martinus Patronus, and dated 1702, the pewter cover embossed with shells, surmounted with a coin depicting the Crucifixion, inscribed in German, connected to the handle with a globular thumbpiece, (with a hairline crack), early 18th Century
23 cm high
Errata: Mid-18th Century
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