A SIEGBURG WHITE SALTGLAZE STONEWARE DATED TAPERING CYLINDRICAL TANKARD (SCHNELLE)

David Gaimster discusses the use of foreign coats of arms on German stoneware suggesting that their use was related to religious wars in the Low Countries; for a similar schnelle decorated with the arms of Spain and the Imperial arms, also with the initials LW, see German Stoneware 1200-1900, London, 1997, p. 181, no. 20 & col. pl. 7. Gaimster also notes that the initials LW may be for the mould-cutter Lomer Wilhelm. A pewter-mounted armorial schnelle dated 1576 and marked LW is in the Köln Kunstgwerbemuseum and is illustrated by G. R. von Bock, 'Verbreitung von Rheinischem Steinzeug', Keramos, 87/80, January 1980, p. 21, no. 18.