German Export Westerwald Salt Glazed Stoneware King George Jug longcase clocks heavy ring handles

heavy ring handles

OLD / by his Fellow Employee / of the U

The scrolled uprights feature a large acanthus leaf on each knee and griffe-de-lion feet

Hand made with applied stars around the starburst halo

gilt edge pages

German Export Westerwald Salt Glazed Stoneware King George Jug longcase clocks heavy ring handlesDETAILS An antique Westerwald pottery pitcher with a tall, tooled, manganese glaze neck over an ovoid body with a loop handle. Made for the British market, the jug is marked with the cypher GR (for Georgius Rex for George I (1714 27) or George II (1727 60), all framed by cobalt blue swirls and scroll decoration. Westerwald pottery is a salt glazed, grey stoneware made in the Hhr Grenzhausen and Ransbach Baumbach area of Westerwaldkreis in Rheinland