16th Century Siegburg Stoneware Schnelle

German, circa 1570-1595, with very detailed sprig applied vertical panels depicting the Crucifixion, the Entombment, and the Resurrection of Christ, original pewter lid with later mounts, accompanied by 1996 receipt from Period Designs, Yorktown, Viginia,10-1/2 in. including lidLiterature: Ivor 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 100, ill.Provenance: The I. Noel Hume Collection of Artifacts and Antiquities
Condition Report: lid off but present, cracks/repairs left of handle, small loss to near robes to figures in Resurrection, wear, some embedded grime