Eggplant and blue enameled stoneware mug decorated with frie - Lot 125

Eggplant and blue enameled stoneware mug decorated with friezes of pearls, quartefoils in slight relief and stylized heads in the lower part. The central part is decorated with three masks in a pearl frame. The silver-plated lid with its shell-shaped thumb rest and embossed decoration of a coat-of-arms surrounded by foliage ends the double-attached handle. It stands on three skate feet. Germany, Middle Rhine, Westerwald (Höhr ?), circa 1700-1725 Height: 17 cm. firing crack Comparison: an unmounted mug with simpler decoration is preserved in the German stoneware collection at the Musée de la Renaissance in Ecouen. See A. Gerbier sous la dir. de, Au gré du Rhin - Les grés allemands du Musée national de la Renaissance, Les Cahiers du musée national de la Renaissance n°9, Paris, 2014, cat.58.