Four Westerwald stoneware salts, 16th century
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Four Westerwald stoneware salts, first half 18th century
Decorated with splashes of blue cobalt on the salt-glaze body, the salt itself shaped as a small bowl, on a square shaft with elaborate pierced and moulded decoration of bird and flower motifs, all between 8cm and 8.3cm high (one short haircrack to the base, very minor typical abrasion to the base of one salt) (4)
Estimate:
£1,000 - 1,500
€1,200 - 1,800
US$ 1,600 - 2,300

Footnotes

  • Provenance:
    Collection De Rijk, the Netherlands

    Literature:
    Three of these salts have been published by W.P. Gerritsen, Het Zoutvat, allerdaags en bijzonder (2004), p.38.

    For comparable examples see Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, BK-KOG-552-A; RM0001.COLLECT.12435

Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics

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