DETAILS
An antique Westerwald pottery stein with cobalt blue foliate scroll and tooled bands on a grey ground with a pewter hinged lid. Ownership monogram (lid top): M.B.
Westerwald pottery is a salt glazed, grey stoneware made in the Höhr-Grenzhausen and Ransbach-Baumbach area of Westerwaldkreis in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. The decoration is traditionally cobalt blue.
MARKS
Pewter lid: touch mark.
PERIOD
18th century
DATE
Circa 1740
DIMENSIONS
Width 6 Depth 4 Height 9 inches
CONDITION
Note: restoration to lid.