Live Auction 20036Two Private Collections of European Ceramics, Gold Boxes and Silver
TWO PEWTER-MOUNTED DIPPOLDISWALDE STONEWARE TANKARDS AND COVERS
Lot 62

TWO PEWTER-MOUNTED DIPPOLDISWALDE STONEWARE TANKARDS AND COVERS

17TH CENTURY, THE MOUNT TO THE GLOBULAR EXAMPLE PROBABLY LATER, THE COVER OF THE OTHER EXAMPLE DATED AND INSCRIBED G:W:T: .1.6.7.9.

Closed16 December 2021

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GBP 3,750

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TWO PEWTER-MOUNTED DIPPOLDISWALDE STONEWARE TANKARDS AND COVERS
17TH CENTURY, THE MOUNT TO THE GLOBULAR EXAMPLE PROBABLY LATER, THE COVER OF THE OTHER EXAMPLE DATED AND INSCRIBED G:W:T: .1.6.7.9.
One example of globular form, moulded with brightly coloured scales, the other example moulded with bands of husks enriched in gilding, gilt scales and line ornament
The globular example 6 7⁄8 in. (17.5 cm.) high overall; the other 6 5⁄8 in. (16.8 cm.) high overall

Specialist note


The globular example R.G. Vater Collection no. 569 (paper collection label attached to cover interior).

A globular stoneware tankard and cover with similar decoration is illustrated by Josef Horschik, Steinzeug: 15. bis 19. Jahrhundert, Dresden, 1978, p. 459, no. 20, where it is attributed to Annaberg. It was previously thought that stoneware was made at Annaberg, but no archival material supports this, and following excavations at Dippoldiswalde in the early 1990s, it is now thought that these pieces were in fact made at Dippoldiswalde, a small town nearby, slightly nearer to Dresden. See Anne Barth, Dippoldiswalder Steinzeug. Ein Töpferhandwerk und seine kulturhistorische Bedeutung, Dresden, 2018.