Sprig Molded Rhenish Blue on Gray (Westerwald) Stoneware Body Sherds

(1600 - 1775)

Six Westerwald or "Rhenish Blue on Gray" salt-glazed stoneware body sherds from a hollowware vessel. The exterior has very intricately applied/sprig molded stippled and Moorish decoration and a cobalt blue coloring. The interior has no visible decoration and the body is light gray in color. Consists of two mended sherds and three sherds that do not mend but are likely from the same vessel.

7 Hanover Square

Manhattan, 7 Hanover Square

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