Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 55
A Cologne stoneware bellarmine (Bartmannskrug), circa 1525-50
2 July 2019, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£5,000 - £8,000
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Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
A Cologne stoneware bellarmine (Bartmannskrug), circa 1525-50
Applied with a bearded mask below the rim, above three rose motifs, a horizontal band of foliate scrollwork along the body with alternating acanthus leaves and circular portrait medallions above and below, applied with a strap handle, 20cm high
Footnotes
Similar examples, but without the rose motifs, are in the Collection of the British Museum (illustrated in D. Gaimster, German Stoneware 1200-1900 (1997), no. 37, and in the Kustgewerbemuseum Cologne (illustrated by G. Reineking von Bock, Steinzeug (1986), nos. 283). Further ones are illustrated in I. Unger, Die Kunst des deutschen Steinzeugs, Collection Karl und Petra Amendt und der Krefelder Kunstmuseen (2013), nos. 11-13.
