Scene at a Well

Catalog No. 554

Pottery or stoneware, relief, 0.5L, pewter lid.

Text:
“Froh erwache jeden Morgen,
trink dein Töpfchen ohne Sorgen.”

(Happily awake each morning,
drink your jug without sorrow.)
“Jetzt gang i an’s Brünnele, trink aber nit,
da such’ i mein herztausigen Schatz find’n aber nit.”

(Now I go to the well, but I do not drink,
for there I seek my beloved but do not find her.)

Second text string is the opening stanza from a song entitled “Die drei Röselein” (The Three Little Roses), written in 1826 by Friedrich Silcher and sung to a melody from a 1765 symphony by Johann Zach.

See also No. 637.

Price Ranges
Full-color: $60-$80
Ltd-color: $50-$70

     
     
MG 554
MG 554

 
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