
A Westerwald Stoneware Tankard
The body with incised and impressed decoration
The neck with applied masks
Westerwald C1600/20
Height; 7″ (17.5 cm)
Condition; chip to upper upper rim, minor small chips to rim
Slightly distorted in the firing
A similar example is in ‘The American Pilgrim Museum’ Leiden
Fragments of this type have been excavated in Plymouth Massachusetts at the site of the colony founded by the Mayflower Pilgrims in 1620
Also at the slightly earlier site at Martin’s Hundred in Virginia