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A GILT-METAL-MOUNTED B?TTGER POLISHED RED STONEWARE TANKARD AND COVER CIRCA 1710-13, THE MOUNTS 18TH CENTURY With a slightly mottled surface, the strap handle fitted with a gilt-metal mount 8 ? in. (21 cm.) high overall
B?ttger’s red stoneware is a form of 'true' porcelain, similar to that made in the Far East, and although he also discovered hard-paste white porcelain, it was red stoneware which reached production stage first. The factory at Meissen was set up in January 1710 and stoneware pieces were available for purchase only a few months later at the Leipzig Easter Fair. White porcelain was exhibited at the same fair but was not developed for production until a few years later, being offered for sale in Easter 1713.
See Rainer Ruckert, Meissener Porzellan, Munich, 1966, no. 10 for a similar tankard to the present lot.