Double-Handled Jar

Oberthulba, Bad Kissingen District, 1823

Earthenware with white slip-trailed decoration

35,0 x 11,5 cm

Inv.-Nr. 71/56

Acquired in 1971 from the Paul Stieber Collection, Munich, for the Alois Alzheimer Stiftung at the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum

Gallery 110

Vessels of this type were used to catch the drops from a schnapps still, hence the term 'Weinbrandhafen' [pot for spirits of wine]. Flattened at the side, it could easily fit beneath the still. In the 19th century such jars for everyday use were usually glazed. Jars like this one – unglazed outside with painted white decoration – were only made in Lower Franconia and nowhere else in Bavaria at the time.

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