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Objekt 3

Pear-shaped jug with scattered floral decoration

Description

Many ceramic objects such as jugs and tankards were first fitted with a lid mount at the point of sale by local pewter casters.

Object description

Hanau, Hanau faience factory, early 18th century (jug) and Basel, Joseph Wick (1654-1721), early 18th century (pewter mount)

Faience with manganese-purple sharp-fire decoration on paste-blue glaze; pewter mounting

Inv. 1928.676. bequest Rudolf Nötzlin-Werthemann, Basel.

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