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Tankard
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Tankard
- Place of origin:
Friedberg (made)
- Date:
about 1754 to 1768 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Unknown (maker)
- Materials and Techniques:
Tin-glazed earthenware with painted decoration and pewter mounts
- Credit Line:
Bought with the assistance of the Lane Memorial Fund
- Museum number:
C.232-1934
- Gallery location:
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery, case 50, shelf 4
Physical description
Cylindrical; loop handle. Painted with a man and woman with a running hare in a landscape, inscribed below: Laufs wild bräth immer hin nach dem frag ich nicht vill: ich hab schon was mich freüd: und was ich haben will. Pewter foot, and inscribed lid.
Place of Origin
Friedberg (made)
Date
about 1754 to 1768 (made)
Artist/maker
Unknown (maker)
Materials and Techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware with painted decoration and pewter mounts
Marks and inscriptions
Laufs wild bräth immer hin nach dem frag ich nicht vill: ich hab schon was mich freüd: und was ich haben will.
'I don't ask for the running hare, anyway I already have what makes me happy and what I want to have!'
Painted on tnakard
'CB' under a crown
For Chur-Bayern
in blue
1778 / 3 [within a heart] / K TS [in monogram] with doves on each side of the heart, all between two branches of bay
inscribed on pewter lid
Dimensions
Diameter: 4 in taken from Register, Height: 7 1/4 in taken from Register
Object history note
Originally thought to date to about 1775.
Bought from Cecil N. Spero, London.
Descriptive line
Tankard of earthenware covered with a tin glaze, painted in blue and mounted in pewter. German, Friedberg, about 1754 to 1768. The pewter lid dated 1778.
Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)
Strauss, K., 'Seltene...', Keramos, Dec. 1974
Adelheid Roline-Unger and Hela Schandelmaier, 250 Jahre Friedberger Fayencen (1754-1768), Schloss Friedberg, 2004-5
Labels and date
Tankard with pewter lid
Made in Friedberg, Germany about 1775
Mark: 'CB' (for Chur-Bayern) under a crown, in blue
Inscription: I don't ask for the running hare, anyway I already have what makes me happy and what I want to have!
Tin-glazed earthenware
C.232-1934
Pewter lid dated 1778. [16/07/2008]
Production Note
Pewter lid dated 1778.
Materials
Earthenware; Pewter; Tin glaze
Techniques
Glazed
Subjects depicted
Landscape; Hare
Categories
Ceramics; Faience; Earthenware
Collection
Ceramics Collection