Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 59
A Cologne stoneware bellarmine (Bartmannskrug), circa 1525-50
2 July 2019, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£3,000 - £4,000
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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 scrolling branches with leaves and acorns, 15cm high (chips and cracks)
Footnotes
Examples of similar style are in the Kustgewerbemuseum Cologne (illustrated by G. Reineking von Bock, Steinzeug (1986), nos. 255-260). Further ones are illustrated in I. Unger, Die Kunst des deutschen Steinzeugs, Collection Karl und Petra Amendt und der Krefelder Kunstmuseen (2013), nos. 8-9.
