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Sat, Sep 11, 2021 09:00AM EDT
Lot 1158

German Salt Glazed Stoneware Bellarmine Jug

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $25
$100 $50
$1,000 $100
$2,000 $200
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

attributed to Frenchen or Cologne, dated 1597, with smiling greybeard mask, sprig decorated with medallion bearing the date "1597", 7-5/8 x 5 in., Provenance: Christie's, London, The Rous Lench Collection, Lot 196, purchased May 29, 1990 for œ1,430; Property from the Collection of Dudley and Constance Godfrey; Note: This bellarmine jug was exhibited at the Milwaukee Art Museum in Puritan Classicism: Seventeenth-Century Cupboards of Massachusetts, from May 4 to July 29, 2001.

Condition

chip to rim with short corresponding hairline, base with some kiln debris, small voids in clay