Tankard
ca. 1909-1914
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Beer tankard (0.5 L) of stoneware with brown iron wash under salt-glaze. Squat cylindrical body with a strap handle. Relief decoration of vertical rice pattern round the top and a band of reeding round the base. Pewter lid with thumb-piece.
Object details
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Salt-glazed stoneware with pewter lid |
| Brief description | Beer tankard (0.5 L), salt-glazed stoneware with pewter lid, designed by Paul Wynand, made by Reinhold Merkelbach factory, Höhr-Grenzhausen, Germany, ca. 1909-14 |
| Physical description | Beer tankard (0.5 L) of stoneware with brown iron wash under salt-glaze. Squat cylindrical body with a strap handle. Relief decoration of vertical rice pattern round the top and a band of reeding round the base. Pewter lid with thumb-piece. |
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| Credit line | Given by Robin Hildyard |
| Object history | This beer tankard was designed by the sculptor Paul Wynand (1879-1956) for the Reinhold Merkelbach pottery. The pottery was founded in Höhr-Grenzhausen in 1845 and manufactured tankards for use in pubs and bars. The brown glaze was developed around 1904-8 with the intention of reproducing the sixteenth-century brown-glazed stoneware which had been discovered in Cologne in the 1890s. The V&A's existing collection of Höhr-Grenzhausen salt-glazed stoneware productions are mainly of the type decorated in cobalt blue. |
| Bibliographic reference | Gaimster, David. German Stoneware 1200-1900: Archaeology and Cultural History. London: British Museum Press, 1997, colour plate 189, centre left. |
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| Accession number | C.220-2014 |
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| Record created | May 8, 2014 |
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