Featured Figures on Clay Pot - Identification

Hi All,

Can anyone help identify the maker of this clay / stoneware pot? It's 4.75 inches tall.

Thanks!
Biju

 

The first guy reminds me of Flemish paintings of tavern scenes; the second made me think of commedia dell'arte. Taken together, looks like a message about how drink can make fools of men. Sides are like Greek theater masks. I'm sure there would have been one for a drunkard.

 

That impressed numbering style is often German or Austrian.

@Any Jewelry on the costume!

 

Ditto.
The one with the beer tankard, maybe from a Brueghel painting?
The other one looks like Pulcinella from the commedia dell'arte. The Pulcinella character was adopted in other countries, under different names.

 

Thanks for your input everyone. I see the themes you're referencing in the figures. I would really love to know the maker - I do agree that the mark looks German or Austrian. Hope somebody can help identify.

 

A bit thin but... That may well be Pulcinella, right down to the cudgel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulcinella

Debora

 

Is anyone able to identify the maker from the mark?
TIA

 

Can anyone help identify the maker?
TIA

 

Well, that pot is all kinds of fun!

 

It looks like early Villeroy & Boch to me - the mark also looks reminiscent of a V&B hallmark - maybe that’s a starting point…

 

Thanks for the lead, but the mark on mine seems to be an eagle depiction, while the early V&B one was a Mercury head? Thoughts?

 

I don't see an eagle like what appears on your pot in the attached article and list of Villeroy and Villeroy=related marks after the article. There is one mark with an eagle in it but not like yours at all.

https://www.porcelainmarksandmore.com/germany/saar/mettlach-01/index.php