DETAILS
An antique Westerwald pottery ball-belly or Kugelbauch pitcher with a narrow neck, bulbous body and C-shape handle with a curled tail. The jug is brushed with cobalt blue designs and stamped with V-shape designs on the shoulder and body all on a grey ground.
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.
COLOR(S)
Cobalt blue, grey-brown
PLACE OF ORIGIN
Germany | Europe
MARKS
Unmarked
DATE
17th century
DIMENSIONS
Width 5 Depth 4.75 Height 6.5 inches