A Westerwald salt glazed stoneware apothecary jar
A Westerwald salt glazed stoneware apothecary jar
Narrow cylindrical vessel with moulded base and similar rim. Painted on one side with the motto "1590 ALT DAS GOT WALT IE" in a scrollwork surround. Cracks, chips to the rim, an old filled repair to the base at the front. H 16.5 cm.
Jan Emens Mennicken, 1590.
Jan Emens Mennicken (around 1540 - around 1594), who was born in Raeren, moved to the Westerwald after 1587, where he continued to produce his vessels with a different, grey clay, but with the same appliques.
Provenance
Private collection, Rhineland.
Literature
Cf. Ohm/Bauer, Steinzeug und Zinn, Frankfurt 1977, cat. no. 81, a similar piece from the collection of the Museum für Kunsthandwerk Frankfurt, labelled Becher, attributed to Jan Emens.
Cf. Reineking von Bock, Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Köln. Steinzeug, Cologne 3/1986, cat. no. 431, an identical jar, dated 1591, inv. no. Z 60.
For an identical example from 1591 s. Lempertz Cologne auction 839 on 16 May 2003, lot 163, then from the collection of the Einhorn Pharmacy, Cologne.
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A Westerwald salt glazed stoneware apothecary jar
Narrow cylindrical vessel with moulded base and similar rim. Painted on one side with the motto "1590 ALT DAS GOT WALT IE" in a scrollwork surround. Cracks, chips to the rim, an old filled repair to the base at the front. H 16.5 cm.
Jan Emens Mennicken, 1590.
Jan Emens Mennicken (around 1540 - around 1594), who was born in Raeren, moved to the Westerwald after 1587, where he continued to produce his vessels with a different, grey clay, but with the same appliques.
Provenance
Private collection, Rhineland.
Literature
Cf. Ohm/Bauer, Steinzeug und Zinn, Frankfurt 1977, cat. no. 81, a similar piece from the collection of the Museum für Kunsthandwerk Frankfurt, labelled Becher, attributed to Jan Emens.
Cf. Reineking von Bock, Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Köln. Steinzeug, Cologne 3/1986, cat. no. 431, an identical jar, dated 1591, inv. no. Z 60.
For an identical example from 1591 s. Lempertz Cologne auction 839 on 16 May 2003, lot 163, then from the collection of the Einhorn Pharmacy, Cologne.
