Stoneware, matte beige and lead glaze (interior), vessel imprinted in mold (traces of stitching), pewter (lid with lever on ear),
small crack and vertical crack of the neck from the inside edge, traces of gluing,
H 30.5 cm (with lid), base diameter 10.7 cm; signed by imprint: 1002.
Germany, Tonwarenfabrik C.W. Fleischmann in Nuremberg?, 2nd half - con. XIX c.
Jug with tin lid framed on the handle, with a plastic figure of a dwarf on a lever. Around the belly, relief decoration in Neo-Renaissance type: under the spout with a satyr's mask, a ferrule cartouche with a sentence painted in black paint is suspended: "Muntre Gesellen, guter Wein / vertreiben Grillen, erheitern das Sein" (translated. Merry boys, good wine / will ward off caprices and cheer up daily existence). To the sides, two feasting men sitting casually on volute scrolls, toasting with a chalice, with jugs in their hands.
The CW (...) monogram, readable in part on the jug in the hand of one of the men, suggests the jug was made at the C.W. Fleischmann Clayware Factory, operating from the 1830s in Nuremberg (later also in Munich), known, especially in Germany, for its extensive range of historicized copies and pastiches of old German ceramics.
Fleischmann made them in large quantities for the domestic market and for export using the 19th-century die imprint technique.
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