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Production: Unidentified Westerwald pottery
Greyish-buff salt-glazed stoneware decorated on the main field with a relief of Adam and Eve, flanked by cartouches containing two men fighting with swords, coloured in blue and manganese-purple; pewter mounts, cover, and replacement handle
Greyish-buff stoneware, thrown, decorated with applied moulded reliefs, coloured in blue and manganese-purple, and salt-glazed. The handle has been replaced in pewter, and is attached to a band around the upper part of the sides, and by means of a hinge, to a shell-shaped thumb piece, and a low domed cover. The cylindrical tankard has sides which slope inwards slightly towards the top where they contract to provide a ledge for the cover to rest on. Round the middle of the sides is a wide band with a central relief of Adam and Eve on either side of the Tree of Knowledge, flanked by scrolled cartouches enclosing two men fighting with swords, who wear knee breeches and hats with feathers. Above and below is a horizontal blue band between cordons and a band of lozenge diamond motifs in relief coloured alternately blue and purple. Another blue band encircles the top above the pewter mount.
History note: Crome’s Antique Shop, Crosby Square, Bishopsgate Street, EC., where bought for £1 on 2, March 1912 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 16.3 cm
Height: 3 cm
Width: 13.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, first half#
Circa
1700
-
1750
The stoneware industry in the Westerwald developed first in the area of three villages, Höhr, Grenzau and Grenzhausen (currently Höhr-Grenzhausen), where potters formed a guild in 1643, and expanded to other villages in the area. Production increased greatly after the end of the Thirty Years War in 1648, and Westerwald stoneware was exported on a large scale to other parts of Europe, including Britain. Typically the vessels made, such as tankards and jugs, had a pale grey body with incised or applied relief decoration coloured in blue or blue and manganese-purple before salt-glazing.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( cobalt-blue and manganese-purple)
Mounts, Handle
composed of
pewter
( probably)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Base
Diameter 10 cm
Body
Thumbpiece
greyish-buff Stoneware
Accession number: C.2037-1928
Primary reference Number: 73035
Old object number: 3484
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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