Live Auction 20036Two Private Collections of European Ceramics, Gold Boxes and Silver
A GERMAN SALTGLAZE STONEWARE ARMORIAL BARTMANNSKRUG
Lot 57

A GERMAN SALTGLAZE STONEWARE ARMORIAL BARTMANNSKRUG

CIRCA 1600, PROBABLY COLOGNE OR FRECHEN

Closed16 December 2021

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A GERMAN SALTGLAZE STONEWARE ARMORIAL BARTMANNSKRUG
CIRCA 1600, PROBABLY COLOGNE OR FRECHEN
Of large bulbous form, the neck with a rope-twist handle and applied at the front with a mask with a bifurcated beard, the body with three armorial medallions, two with the reversed Royal arms of England flanking a central Imperial double-headed eagle, with dabs of blue under a speckled brown saltglaze
10 1⁄4 in. (26.2 cm.) high

The collection of Mrs. James de Rothschild, sold; Christie's, London, 10 April 1972, lot 17.

Specialist note


A krug with a ropetwist handle and very similar dentil border on the neck is illustrated by Karl Koetschau, Rheinisches Steinzeug, Munich, 1924, no. 5, where it is attributed to Frechen. Two krugs with similar moulded panels in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, are illustrated by David Gaimster, German Stoneware 1200-1900, London, 1997, pp. 214 and 216, nos. 55 and 57, col. pl. 13, where they are attributed to Cologne. Another example moulded with the arms of England is in the Bristih Museum (museum no. 1854,0726.1).