A documentary Frankfurt pewter-mounted jug (Enghalskrug) dated 1684

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

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Description

F/ 1684 in blue
33.5cm., 13 1/4 in.

the spirally-moulded body and ribbed neck finely painted probably by Martin Schlöder in blue with flowers, incorporating the initials 'MS', insects and a bird, the double rope-twist handle striped and dotted in blue, dated on the underside, the pewter cover with maker's mark of Johann Ulrich Orth, Frankfurt (received Master 1697)

Provenance

Bodewig Collection, Frankfurt (by 1913);
Dr. Eugen Mayer Collection, Frankfurt (by 1935);
Carl A. Janicke Collection, Oslo (by 1956)

Literature

E.Zeh, Hanauer Fayence, Marburg 1913, p.72, ill.29;
O. Riesebieter, Die deutschen Fayencen des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, Leipzig 1921, p.36, ill.36;
A.Feulner, Frankfurter Fayencen, Berlin 1935, p.71, no.163 (illustrated, pl.55);
K.Hüseler, Deutsche Fayencen, Stuttgart 1956, vol.1, no.18 (illustrated)

Catalogue Note

Martin Schlöder (b.1646) is recorded by Hüseler (see Literature, vol.III, p.423) as a painter who very probably worked at the Frankfurt manufactory. A similarly decorated Enghalskrug, marked F, in the Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, is illustrated by Margrit Bauer, Europäische Fayencen, cat.no.109.