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A very rare silver-mounted Meissen Böttger stoneware tankard and cover, circa 1710-13 image 1
A very rare silver-mounted Meissen Böttger stoneware tankard and cover, circa 1710-13 image 2
A very rare silver-mounted Meissen Böttger stoneware tankard and cover, circa 1710-13 image 3
A very rare silver-mounted Meissen Böttger stoneware tankard and cover, circa 1710-13 image 4
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2 May 2013, 13:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£20,000 - £30,000

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A very rare silver-mounted Meissen Böttger stoneware tankard and cover, circa 1710-13

With a strap handle, covered inside and out in a deep black glaze, the tankard wheel-cut through the glaze with a coat of arms, the cover similarly decorated with a spider in a web, enclosed by a foliate wreath, the silver mounts with marks for Dresden and Paulus Betecke (master 1692), 22cm high (the silver floral thumbpiece a later replacement)

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Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 2

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