“Falstaff”

Catalog No. 242

Pottery or stoneware, relief, 2.0L, pewter lid.

Text:
“Iss’ was gar ist, trink was klar ist.”
(Eat what is cooked, drink what is clear.)

Sir John Falstaff is one of the most famous comic characters in all English literature, appearing in four of Shakespeare’s plays and later in Giuseppe Verdi’s final opera Falstaff, which was inspired principally by Falstaff’s follies in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. This particular depiction is taken from a painting by Eduard von Grützner (1846-1925).