German hand made beer stein heraldic lion salt glaze?

May as well ask about this:

This stein is hand potted. You can see the finger rings inside. I don't think it's old, but it is well done. There is a mark on the bottom. So... anyone one know who did it?

The surface looks, for the most part, like salt glaze, but that texturing does not touch the stylized lion. How can it be salt glazed without the whole surface being affected?

It's a standard stein size - 5" tall, 4" across the foot.

 

How about Wim Mühlendyck ?
http://www.steinmarks.co.uk/pages/pv.asp?p=stein173

 

Hi,
The salt glaze goes on unglazed areas, the blue glazed Lion would resist. WAG
greg

 

Thanks for the info. I never imagined it could actually be ID'd.

I don't know about the glazing. I suppose it could be a question of putting it through the kiln twice. Different glazes will fire at different temperatures. The lion is actually a darker brown but the other decoration is cobalt blue, and there's no pebbling on the handle or foot rim either.

 

It was mostly luck I found the maker but you're welcome. I don't know much about salt-glazing techniques but it seems to me that the brown pebbled surface may have had a slip where the smooth areas may have had colored glaze...just a guess since I don't really know.

It looks like you can search Muehlendyck spelling also.

 

In the stein world it is a half size stein. Properly they hold about a litre or two pints. One of the sights of Oktoberfest is respectable looking German middle aged ladies chug-a-lugging brimming liter steins of Bavarian beer.

Throw in huge marquees, half a kilometer of bench style tables in each tent, (one tent, one brew) an oompah band (live of course) and dashing waitresses delivering up to ten massive steins at a time with weight-lifter's arms in their traditional Bavarian dress, and you have a sight to remember. Oh, und wursteln mit würsten die würste.

 

These modern steins bear little semblance to Wim's work. It seems they have eroded the market for his old stuff.

 

Hi AF,
You can use your keyboard to do umlauts. Be sure your number lock is on. Using the numbers on the extreme right hand side of your keyboard. Push down and hold on the ALT key and type this numer on the right key board 0220 that will give you a large Ü if you want a small umlaut push and hold ALT type #0252 ü.
greg

 

Way to go, Greg !

 

Are you saying this is a modern knockoff? How can you tell?

 

These steins were made later, in a more commercial manner. His early works are far more sophisticated.

 

I don't care if it's one of his later works. I do care if it's fake.

 

By the time it was produced it was 'his' in name only. He was there but the kids were making the stuff. Somewhere there is a picture of him drinking beer while the younger ones are working.

 

I tried your way of typing umlauts but it wont work for me ?

 

I do it the hard way:

Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map

Ü ¿ © ® Æ § ¢ ۩ ♣ ♫

 

It works for me, did you make sure your num lock is on and that you're using the calculator looking keyboard? It doesn't work with the regular numbers at the top. I use Alt + numbers for other things too like ½ (Alt 0189)

Üü

 

I found a couple of his steins here.3/4 way down on page.

http://www.steveonsteins.com/a-small-pictorial-compendium-of-stein-terms-mj-mz-awpd

Very similar to yours

 

LOL SIS,I forgot to use the number pad DUH! Thanks

 

http://www.steveonsteins.com/wim-muhlendycks-novel-animal-jugenstil-beer-steins-from-the-westerwald

Wim Mühlendyck. A very brief history:
Wim Mühlendyck, was born in 1905 in Porz near Cologne. He ttended the Staatliche Keramische Fachschule in 1926 – 27. His ceramic workshop: Mühlendyck, in Hoehr-Grenzhausen, Germany, was founded in 1931 and continued until the 1970′s. He lived to be 81. He died in 1986 in the town of Höhr Grenzhausen.

I have found no representation that Wim was not the artist for this series of animal steins.

 

I've got a stein I've been assuming can't be identified too that is similar to this one. I think I'll start a new thread in case someone can read it.