Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 52
A Raeren/Aachen stoneware jug, circa 1475-1525
2 July 2019, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £6,937.50 inc. premium
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Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
A Raeren/Aachen stoneware jug, circa 1475-1525
With a light-brown salt-glaze, moulded and incised below the neck with a bearded face and arms holding bagpipes, the foot lobed, applied with a strap handle, 21cm high
Footnotes
Very similar examples are in the Collection of the British Museum (illustrated in D. Gaimster, German Stoneware 1200-1900 (1997), p. 76, fig. 3.43, and in the Kustgewerbemuseum Cologne (illustrated by G. Reineking von Bock, Steinzeug (1986), nos.339 and 346). Another is illustrated in I. Unger, Die Kunst des deutschen Steinzeugs, Collection Karl und Petra Amendt und der Krefelder Kunstmuseen (2013), no.87.
