A Hanau faience jug, circa 1720

painted in enamel colours, perhaps by Bartholomäus Seuter in Augsburg, with a ribbon-tied bouquet of garden flowers flanked by large moths and surmounted by a vignette of a parrot on a branch, the loop handle with a puce-ribboned knot at the base,

Ulrich Pietsch, Preziosen, einer süddeutschen Kunstsammlung, 2001, pp. 90

chips to rim and footrim, original metal cover now missing
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For a jug of this form from the Liechtenstein and Kramarski collections, painted with a composition of many similar elements and attributed to Seuter's Augsburg workshop, see H. Bosch, Deutsche Fayencekrüge des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, no. 23