A Lower Rhenish earthenware dish with a couple drinking

A Lower Rhenish earthenware dish with a couple drinking

Painted with a figure of a lady passing a chalice to a gentleman in a tricorn hat, inscribed: "1766/ IHR: HAT ALLES: WOL GEMACHT MATT: 22", "VND: ES IST: SCHON 3 MAHL VOL: AVS", "ICH: BRENGE: ES: DIR: GERADVS: ICH SAGE: DANCK: MEINE: HAVSFRV ES: SCHMECKT: MI: GANTZ: WOL: NOCH: ENS: EIN MAHL". D 50.4 cm.
Rayen, attributed to Peter Gervens, 1766.

Provenance

Private collection, Lower Rhine Region, acquired in 2001 at Cologne trade fair.

Literature

Cf. Scholten-Neess/ Jüttner, Niederrheinische Bauerntöpferei 17. - 19. Jahrhundert, Düsseldorf 1971, no. 346.