Prints and drawings by Albrecht Durer, £9.99 Height: 21.200 cm
Bequeathed by Sir A.W. Franks M&ME Silver Catalogue 31
Prehistory and Europe Stoneware tankard with silver-gilt mounts
The jug is probably from Cologne, Germany, around AD 1520-40 The
mounts, London, AD 1584 This stoneware drinking jug has been
salt-glazed. Stoneware is clay that has been fired at an
extremely high temperature, resulting in a hard body that is
impervious to water. It is often covered with a salt glaze,
which is usually rough and slightly pitted. The Rhineland became
a major centre for the production of stoneware from the
thirteenth century, with workshops operating in Cologne, Frechen
Siegburg and Raeren. Similar jugs were found on the
Maximinenstrasse workshop site in Cologne; this jug was probably
also made there. By the sixteenth century these workshops were
producing highly artistic wares applied with moulded decoration.
The decoration comprised mythological and biblical scenes, often
based on contemporary engravings, or natur