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