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Plain curved handle of semicircular section. Painted with a scene of 'The Flight into Egypt', occupying the whole circuit of the tankard. In the middle the Virgin Mary holding the Child Christ, sits on an ass, which is led to the right by Joseph. Landscape background with steep rocky hills; on either side trees with feathery foliage and stumps and bushes. Signature 'MS' incised in the black pigment on a rock on the right. 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Backer, London.\r\nThis tankard was formerly in the collection of Kommerzienrat J. Mühsam, Berlin.","historicalContext":"Note in Register: Other examples of the same artist illustrated by Pazaurek and see also Lanna Collection, 1146, 1157.","briefDescription":"Tankard of earthenware covered with a tin glaze, painted in purplish black (Schwarzlot) and mounted in pewter. Painted and signed 'MS', proabably for Mattäus Schmid. German, Nuremberg, about 1720-30.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Strauss, K., 'Seltene...', Keramos, Dec. 1974"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Bosch, Helmut. <u> Die Nürnberger hausmaler</u>.  Klinkhardt &amp; Biermann, Munich, 1984.  catalogue no. 322, illustrated, 401p.  The figure of the Virgin with the child on her lap is generally thought to be after Johann Jakob Sandrart (1655-1698), probably via the woodcut in the Lutherian bible, published by Johann Andreas Endter in Nuremberg in 1710.  Another tankard illustrated with a slightly different version of the same subject is in Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, see catalogue no. 323.  For information about the identity of 'MS' or 'M.Schmid', see pp. 528-529."}],"production":"According to Helmut Bosch (see reference) there are three possible individuals linked to the initials 'MS' and the signature 'M. 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