RARE ANTI-SEMITIC PEWTER MOUNTED STONEWARE TANKARD Germany, 1910
AUCTION 32 |
Thursday, March 23rd,
2006 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Graphics and Ceremonial Art
Lot 376
RARE ANTI-SEMITIC PEWTER MOUNTED STONEWARE TANKARD
Germany, 1910
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
“Indicative of the often cancerous attitudes towards the Jews in the 19th century, that seethed behind a false front of emancipation.”
An identical tankard to the present one, is on display at the Jewish Museum, New York. For another example, see Kolnisches Stadtmuseum, Cologne, Germany, 1990, Judaica II, no. 129, p. 343