A HANAU BLUE AND WHITE ARMORIAL ENGHALSKRUG with pinched lip and loop handle, the globular body with the quartered Arms surmounted by three crests and flanked by scrolling foliage, the hinged pewter mount with shell thumbpiece and engraved with the initials IMH (two minute chips to top rim, mount damaged), circa 1730, the mounts perhaps later
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A HANAU BLUE AND WHITE ARMORIAL ENGHALSKRUG with pinched lip and loop handle, the globular body with the quartered Arms surmounted by three crests and flanked by scrolling foliage, the hinged pewter mount with shell thumbpiece and engraved with the initials IMH (two minute chips to top rim, mount damaged), circa 1730, the mounts perhaps later
27.5cm. high overall
Lot Essay
Cf. Ernst Zek, op. cit., pl. 95 for a similar jug in the Würzburger Luitpoldmuseum