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GERMAN METTLACH DIOGENES CERAMIC STEIN, mold number 3089, having etched sides with polychrome hand-painted decorations featuring scene depicting a bearded old man stepping out of a barrel, signed "Hein Schlitt", ceramic inset lid with a figure having "SOCRATES ViNUMAMADO" above and metal thumbrest, 1/2 liter size. Impressed "METTLACH / VB" and "GES. GESCH." marks to base with additional impressed numerals and green-stamped "VILLEROY & BOCH / METTLACH" and "MADE IN GERMANY". Late 19th/early 20th century. 7 1/8" HOA.
Literature: Kirsner - The Mettlach Book, third edition, p. 138, fig. bottom, far left.
Undamaged.
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