CIRCA 1711-12, SIX-ARM STAR MARK FOR THE POTTER GEORG MICHEL TO THE BASE OF HANDLE, THE MOUNT OF SIMILAR DATE

Details

A SILVER-MOUNTED BÖTTGER POLISHED RED STONEWARE TANKARD AND COVER
CIRCA 1711-12, SIX-ARM STAR MARK FOR THE POTTER GEORG MICHEL TO THE BASE OF HANDLE, THE MOUNT OF SIMILAR DATE
The wheel-polished body plain and with a reeded foot and rim, the slightly domed cover similarly decorated and with a plain strap handle, contemporary 18th century silver acorn thumb-piece, incised 'mock-seal' mark to the base of the handle
8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 29 June 1987, lot 278.
With Robert Williams, England, 7 July 1987.

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Lot Essay

The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, has in its collection a very similar tankard and cover, also with the six-pointed star mark for Georg Michel, (museum no. C.272&A-1921).
For further similar tankards and covers again impressed with the six-pointed star mark of Georg Michel, see Barbara Szelegejd, Red and Black Stoneware and their Imitations in the Wilanów Collection, Warsaw, 2013, pp. 222, inv. no. Wil.2343. For another example, its cover lacking, in the Schloss Friendenstein Gotha (inv. no. St 165), see Martin Eberle, Das Rote Gold, Gotha, 2011, pp. 88-89, no. 132.

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