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See Joachim Kröll, Creussener Steinzeug, pl. 134 for a similar example in the British Museum, London
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A CREUSSEN HEXAGONAL FLASK
Early 17th century, the decoration perhaps later
Moulded and painted in enamels with Christ and eleven Disciples, named above, on a central blue band with winged cherub's masks at the angles, between arched panels with pine-cone moulding in blue and white, the shoulders with rosettes alternately enamelled in blue and red below a yellow and blue line (one side of top rim broken in three pieces and repaired, some rubbing to enamels)
11 7/8in. (30cm.) high
Early 17th century, the decoration perhaps later
Moulded and painted in enamels with Christ and eleven Disciples, named above, on a central blue band with winged cherub's masks at the angles, between arched panels with pine-cone moulding in blue and white, the shoulders with rosettes alternately enamelled in blue and red below a yellow and blue line (one side of top rim broken in three pieces and repaired, some rubbing to enamels)
11 7/8in. (30cm.) high