A gilt-metal-mounted Meissen B?ttger stoneware tankard and cover. circa 1710-13
The polished cylindrical form with a strap handle and slightly flared foot, the domed cover with a stepped, flat top, the contemporary gilt-copper mounts with stiff-leaf borders and scroll thumbpiece, 21.2cm high (small flat chip to rim)
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Provenance:Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 8 June 1999, lot 28;Purchased by the present owner in the above saleAn inventory of the Meissen manufactory of 3 August 1711 lists numerous tankards including '54 hohe glatte Bier Krüge (gebrannt)' [54 tall smooth beer tankards (fired); see Claus Boltz, Formen des B?ttgersteinzeugs im Jahre 1711, in Mitteilungsblatt der Keramikfreunde der Schweiz 96 (1982), p. 35.