Beschreibung:

A very rare David and John Philip Elers silver-gilt-mounted red stoneware mug circa 1695 the slip-cast cylindrical body applied with a flowering prunus branch flanked by two small scroll motifs within lathe-turned reeded borders at the rims and applied beneath the grooved strap handle with a thumb-pinched terminal, mounted in contemporary silver-gilt, probably German, with gadrooned borders and engraved leaf tip base bands, the hinged cover with a leaf-cast scroll thumbpiece and inset with a white silver medallion embossed and chased with a merry toper above the engraved inscription Ich Schencke bier und Wein für dich und mich, the mounts apparently unmarked. height overall 4 5/8 in. 11. 7 cm