A SOUTH GERMAN OR AUSTRIAN HAFNERWARE PEWTER-MOUNTED TANKARD
A SOUTH GERMAN OR AUSTRIAN HAFNERWARE PEWTER-MOUNTED TANKARD

CIRCA 1550-1580

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A SOUTH GERMAN OR AUSTRIAN HAFNERWARE PEWTER-MOUNTED TANKARD
CIRCA 1550-1580
Of spreading cylindrical form, moulded in high relief with a full-length portrait of a lady in contemporary dress between diagonally striped columns and two panels applied with blue and white flowerheads between panels applied with grains, the lower section alternately moulded with flowerheads and masks terminating in a ropetwist foot, the neck moulded with three winged masks above a ropetwist band (handle with pewter repair to lower part, chips to footrim and minor glaze flaking)
13¼ in. (33.5 cm.) high overall

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Tom Johans
Tom Johans

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For a smaller and less elaborate tankard moulded in relief with a lady, see Alfred Walcher Ritter von Molthein, Bunte Hafnerkeramik der Renaissance, Vienna, 1906, pl. IX.

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