an assorted selection of ceramic drinking vessels and objects, approximately 30 pieces, including salt glazed stoneware with cylindrical necks, spherical bodies, frilled feet, and strap handles; brown salt glazed stoneware mugs, one with a sprig applied crest of a rampant lion, possibly Rhenish; two sprig decorated stoneware sherds [sic], possibly Westerwald, one depicting the lower half of a figure with a winged beast climbing up the leg; two sprig decorated rectangular tiles with portraits; plaster cast of stoneware figure; many repaired vessels; two possibly mid 15th century A.D. pin maker's jigs made from cut-down animal metacarpal bones, often employed to create lateral grooves in ceramics, both with carved designs, longest approximately 5-1/2 in.; Provenance: The I. Noel Hume Collection of Artifacts and Antiquities
Condition
all vessels have broken components in some form or another, many are fragments, all with extensive wear and surface dirt; metacarpal bones are both numbered "162." and "163." in black ink