1580, RAEREN, SIGNED WITH THE POTTER'S INITAL GE

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A GERMAN BROWN SALTGLAZE STONEWARE DATED ARMORIAL PEWTER-MOUNTED SCHNELLE
1580, RAEREN, SIGNED WITH THE POTTER'S INITAL GE
Of tapering cylindrical form, applied with a shield-shaped coat of arms flanked by armoured supporters below the date 1580 and acanthus mantling, the lower part with the inscription IOHANS·FREIHER·HER/ZO·STATTIN·IN·POMMEREN above the initials GE, within ribbed border, with a hinged pewter cover
32.5 cm. high overall

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Lot Essay

These are the arms of Johan Frederick, Duke of Pomerian-Stettin (1542-1600).
David Gaimster, German Stoneware, 1200-1900, Archaeology and Cultural History, London, 1997, p. 75, no. 3.41. See also the example from the Hermann Emden Collection, sale Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, 2 and 7 November 1908, no. 164. Both examples are signed GE as with the present example, perhaps for the potter Gilles Emonts.

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