Around 1800.

Grey, salt-glazed stoneware with incised and stamped decoration, cobalt blue painting and dotted decoration. H 20 and 22.5 cm.

Cylinder jugs with smoothly painted ear handles. Each with circular reserves, 1x jumping horse, 1x cross floral ornament. Each with engraved and dated pewter lid and ball finial, the interior partly indistinctly hallmarked. Slight signs of age and wear.

The Westerwald stoneware offered in this auction was collected by Albrecht von der Gabelentz (1873-1933), chamberlain at the ducal court in Altenburg. He was appointed director of the Lindenau Museum in 1912. After the duke's abdication in 1918, Albrecht von der Gabelentz also took over the management of the palace museum on a voluntary basis. The collection was continued by his son Georg (1906-1954).

Provenance : From Thuringian aristocratic property. Restitution property with inventory number of the Altenburg Residential Palace, formerly part of the von der Gabelentz family collection at Poschwitz Castle.