Lot #: 149
Price Realized: $300.00
($250 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Slip-Decorated Westerwald Stoneware Mug with Coggled Animal Decoration, German origin, circa 1690, cylindrical form with relief coggled decoration to shoulder and base depicting a deer, a turned-head bird, a rabbit, another bird, and a dog; midsection with incised and impressed floral motifs. Cobalt and manganese slip decoration throughout. Incised "6" on reverse. Cracks in underside, one extending 2 1/2" up front, another extending 3" up reverse, and two extending a short distance onto body and stopping at foot. H 5 1/4".
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