Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 18
A Westerwald stoneware jug (Kugelbauchkrug) depicting King William III and his consort Mary, date 1691
9 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £3,000
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Nette Megens
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Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A Westerwald stoneware jug (Kugelbauchkrug) depicting King William III and his consort Mary, date 1691
The ovoid jug with pulled lip and strap handle, salt-glazed light grey stoneware with applied central roundel medallion moulded with busts of William of Orange and Queen Mary in coronation robes above the inscription in lower-case type 'Uifonshollanffe Tuynloo Bloof enorinicappellenenRoofen' [Uit ons hollanstsen tuyn so bloin oranieappellenen Rosen 1691 / In our Dutch garden bloom oranges and roses], decorated around the body with applied blossoms and floral straps connected by incised stems, 22cm high, (two tight, short haircracks to the rim)
Footnotes
For a discussion of stoneware objects with the same medallions see Dubbe, B. 1988, 'Greskannen met afbeeldingen van de Koning-Stadhouder en Konigin Mary', Antiek, 23:2, 76-82, fig. 7.
A comparable jug with the same medallion is in the collection of the British Museum (1889,0702.10) and another similar example with a single portrait of Willem III is in the Kustgewerbemuseum Cologne (illustrated by G. Reineking von Bock, Steinzeug (1986), no. 537).
