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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Fid, post: 2150773, member: 7724&quot;]those big jugs were mostly used in drinking halls for cider and called Bembel. especially around Frankfurt - so tradition might have come over with the Hessians.</p><p>thick walled to keep low temperature; bottom shows that it&#039;s cut off of the potter&#039;s wheel without stopping and given to a child to store away.</p><p>normally this is a sign of normal massproduction up to 1914, lateron the bottoms were smoothed with a wet rag.</p><p>the colour looks Westerwald/ Kannenbäckerland. </p><p>sometimes when the amount of grey in the glaze is higher then it comes from the other side of the Rhine; especially the Alsatian ones look more gray than this here.</p><p><a href="https://www.google.ch/search?q=%C3%A4ppelwoi+bembel&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjOg6y4ubXpAhXvRBUIHX1_AewQ_AUoAXoECBIQAw&amp;biw=1184&amp;bih=543" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.ch/search?q=%C3%A4ppelwoi+bembel&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjOg6y4ubXpAhXvRBUIHX1_AewQ_AUoAXoECBIQAw&amp;biw=1184&amp;bih=543" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.ch/search?q=äppelwoi+bembel&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjOg6y4ubXpAhXvRBUIHX1_AewQ_AUoAXoECBIQAw&amp;biw=1184&amp;bih=543</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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