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A Rochlitz “Honey Stein” By Walter Swett
This is an example of a Rochlitz “honey stein”. This type of high fired earthenware stein was produced in the small Zwickau Mulde River valley towns of Rochlitz and Lunzenau, Germany, an area where suitable clay deposits were located. Production is believed to have begun in the first half of the 18th Century and continued until the first third of the 19th Century. The cylindrical, dual colored, ribbed steins were the only style known to have been produced there. These were produced as inexpensive, utilitarian objects, with the only decorative elements being the ribs; the honey color, attributed to the oxidizing firing; and the brown, resulting from the application of a clay slip, or engobe....
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