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Flagon

about 1660-80
Medium/TechniqueTin-glazed earthenware, pewter
DimensionsOverall height: 34 cm (13 3/8 in.)
Credit LineThe G. Ephis Collection—Museum purchase with funds donated anonymously, Charles Bain Hoyt Fund, John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund, Mary S. and Edward J. Holmes Fund, William Francis Warden Fund, Tamara Petrosian Davis Sculpture Fund, John Lowell Gardner Fund, Seth K. Sweetser Fund, H. E. Bolles Fund, and funds by exchange from the Kiyi and Edward M. Pflueger Collection-Bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and Gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger
Accession number2012.581
On View
On view
ClassificationsCeramics
Collections
InscriptionsTwo paper labels on underside: "Dr. Gunter Grethe Collection/Aronson Antiquairs of Amsterdam" ""G [superscript C] G collection Gunter Grethe / 0113"
ProvenanceGünter Grethe, Hamburg; sold from the Günther Grethe collection to Aronson Antiquairs (dealers), Amsterdam; 2004, sold by Aronson to the G. Ephis collection (private collector), France; 2012, sold by the G. Ephis collection to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 24, 2012).
Tankard
Artist unknown
about 1740
Tankard
Bayreuth Factory
1731
Jug
18th century
late 17th–early 18th century
Tankard
1750–60
Ewer
dated 1754
Pitcher
1660–70
Enghalskrug
Göggingen Manufactory, Germany
about 1750
Armorial Tankard
Bayreuth Factory
about 1745
Tankard
Öttingen-Schrattenhofen Manufactory
about 1775