Westerwald Cobalt Decorated Bottle and Pitcher
German, mid to late 18th century, stoneware bottle with sprig applied lion and rosette decoration, 9-1/2 in.; pinch spouted pitcher with incised foliate decoration, 11-3/4 in.Literature: Igor Noel Hume, If These Pots Could Talk: Collecting 2,000 Years of British Household Pottery, Hanover and London: Chipstone Foundation and New England Press, 2001, page 92, ill. (bottle only)Provenance: The I. Noel Hume Collection of Artifacts and Antiquities
Condition Report: bottle with hairline cracks throughout spout, neck and handle, chip/loss to left of handle, cracks in right lion, sticky residue on body, pitcher with chip on rim, sticky residue interior rim, minor chips and abrasions throughout
View it on
Sale price
Estimate
Time, Location
Auction House
German, mid to late 18th century, stoneware bottle with sprig applied lion and rosette decoration, 9-1/2 in.; pinch spouted pitcher with incised foliate decoration, 11-3/4 in.Literature: Igor Noel Hume, If These Pots Could Talk: Collecting 2,000 Years of British Household Pottery, Hanover and London: Chipstone Foundation and New England Press, 2001, page 92, ill. (bottle only)Provenance: The I. Noel Hume Collection of Artifacts and Antiquities
Condition Report: bottle with hairline cracks throughout spout, neck and handle, chip/loss to left of handle, cracks in right lion, sticky residue on body, pitcher with chip on rim, sticky residue interior rim, minor chips and abrasions throughout