A Nuremberg faience tankard with Saint George

A Nuremberg faience tankard with Saint George

With a finely painted depiction of the Saint fighting the dragon against a landscape backdrop in a large foliate cartouche. Inscribed above with the patron's name "Johann Bauer 1754". With exotic flowers and a dotted pattern on the reverse. Unglazed base and blue K mark with three dots. Minor glaze chips. Pewter mountings. H with thumbrest 27.1 cm.
Kordenbusch workshop, 1754.

Provenance

Private collection, Westphalia.

Literature

For this decor, cf. a centrepiece in the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Cologne, inv. no. E 603 (cat.: Der schöne Schein, Berlin-Cologne 2013, no. 85).