Live Auction 7999Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Glass, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A RAEREN PEWTER-MOUNTED BROWN SALTGLAZE STONEWARE ARMORIAL JUG
Lot 1 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION 

A RAEREN PEWTER-MOUNTED BROWN SALTGLAZE STONEWARE ARMORIAL JUG

CIRCA 1595

Closed29 November 2011

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A RAEREN PEWTER-MOUNTED BROWN SALTGLAZE STONEWARE ARMORIAL JUG
CIRCA 1595
The front of the central part moulded with a frieze centred by a double-headed eagle with an indistinct date within an oval medallion supported by two crowned lions against trailing foliage, flanked by two crowned Hapsburg coats-of-arms, the handle flanked by two oval medallions enclosing the merchant's mark of a de Wall family potter within an inscription, the lower part with gadrooning, the upper part with incised ornament, the cylindrical neck moulded with scrolls and beasts' heads divided by three masks (chipping to upper rim, slight chipping to body)
16 in. (40.6 cm.) high overall

Specialist note

The arms on the left side of this jug appear to be those of Charles V, King of Spain (as Charles I, 1516-1556) and Holy Roman Emperor (1530-1556); and the arms on the right are earlier, perhaps of his mother, Joanna The Mad (1479-1555). See David Gaimster, German Stoneware 1200-1900, London, 1997, p. 241, no. 94 for a related jug with similar lions and the shield of a de Wall family potter in the British Museum (BM MLA 1855,12-1,207, Bernal Collection). For a discussion of the de Wall family, see H. Hellebrandt, 'Raerener Steinzeug', in Steinzeug aus dem Raerener und Aachener Raum, 1977, pp. 53 and 136.