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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mat, post: 55063, member: 369&quot;]Thank you for all these informations! I think the information given for this kind of jug in the descriptions of the Westerwald museum are&nbsp; a bit confusing. On the one hand they state that this shape was developed around the middle of the 19th century, on the other hand they date such examples to the early 19th century ( see this one: <a href="http://www.museum-digital.de/rlp/index.php?t=objekt&amp;oges=1800" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.museum-digital.de/rlp/index.php?t=objekt&amp;oges=1800" rel="nofollow">http://www.museum-digital.de/rlp/index.php?t=objekt&amp;oges=1800</a> ) Also the description of the example that is very similar to mine (thank you fibald) states that the chess pattern on their jug imitates examples of the early 19th century, so it must have existed on earlier items. My jug fits ca. 6 liter, so I think it is indeed a number... I tried to find out when the liter was used as a measure in Germany to have a &quot; terminus post quem&quot; for my jug, but that does not help too much, I fear. It seems that the metric system was used from 1869 or 1871 on, but there were other measuring units before that were very close to one liter, as the bavarian &quot;Maß&quot; so I am not completely sure. However maybe a date after 1869 or 71 is more likely, and also your example with the leaf decoration, say_it_slowly, seems to belong to the 2nd half of the 19th century, see some furher information here: <a href="http://www.steveonsteins.com/some-of-the-beauties-of-the-westerwald-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.steveonsteins.com/some-of-the-beauties-of-the-westerwald-3" rel="nofollow">http://www.steveonsteins.com/some-of-the-beauties-of-the-westerwald-3</a></p><p>Mat[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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