RARE ANTI-SEMITIC PEWTER MOUNTED STONEWARE TANKARD Germany, 1910

Blue salt glazed stoneware with pewter thumbpiece and rim handle. The images, in two registers, depic anti-Semitic scenes, with German inscriptions; on lid, 5 portraits in rondels. The name of one manufacturer, Johann Korzilius, Cologne, appears to the left of the lower handle; the mark of another, Dummler and Breiden, may be seen to the right of the lower handle. H: 9 1/8”

“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