CIRCA 1600-40

Details

A PEWTER-MOUNTED WALDENBURG SALTGLAZE STONEWARE BARREL-COSTREL
CIRCA 1600-40
With a short handle and a short neck mounted with a hinged cover, the barrel-shaped body applied with repeating diamond foliate prunts flanking two central rectangular panels moulded with a finely dressed couple embracing, mounted with pewter coopering, on two block feet
6 3⁄8 in. (16.3 cm.) high overall

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Lot Essay

An almost identical example formerly in the Eigel Collection and now in the Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf, is illustrated by Ekkart Klinge, Deutsches Steinzeug der Renaissance- und Barockzeit, Hetjens Museum September – November 1979 Exhibition Catalogue, Düsseldorf, 1979, p. 116, no. 222, where it is dated as circa 1600. Another almost identical example is illustrated by Josef Horschik, Steinzeug 15. Bis 19. Jahrhundert Von Bürgel bis Muskau, Dresden, 1978, p. 120, no. 30, where it is dated as circa 1640-50.

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