Rare German Westerwald Glaze Stoneware Enghalskanne Jug 17th Century For Sale

German Westerwald Stoneware Pottery Enghalskanne Jug

DETAILS

The antique German Westerwald Enghals jug is modelled with a globular body, a tall, narrow neck with a large grotesque male mascaroon (mask) and a loop handle with a curled tail. It is decorated with applied flowerheads within roundels, with cobalt blue glaze on a grey ground.

Westerwald pottery is a salt glazed, grey stoneware made in the Höhr-Grenzhausen and Ransbach-Baumbach area of Westerwaldkreis in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. The decoration is traditionally cobalt blue.

MARKS

Unmarked

DATE

Late 17th century

Came from a established political family back east estate , rare and amazing condition for age