Beer jug (0.5 liter) with anti-Semitic vignettes, designed by Johann Korzilius of Köln-Ehrenfeld. Germany, 1893.
Ceramic jug; pewter lid. Stamped on bottom: "Musterschutz".
Four anti-Semitic vignettes appear on the jug (with captions), in two bands. The upper band has three vignettes: the first portrays a German farmer with three Jews sitting on his plow, titled: "This plow would not be so heavy if Aron, Jonas and Hirsch were not sitting on it". The second vignette portrays a laborer with the caption "We labor for such low wages, however Cohen reaps the profits". In the third vignette, two Jews appear picking the pocket of a third person, sleeping under a tree. Between the two bands is a long sentence in German: "Written in the Talmud: 'Only Jews are human, the rest of the nations are compared to animals', and "Non-Jews' gold is free for us and it belongs to he who gets it first". On the bottom band is detailed scene depicting the future expulsion of the Jews from Germany in 1910, accompanied by various anti-Semitic texts: "Great joy and happiness, Germany is free of Jews!", "To Palestine", etc. In the background is a house with the following inscription on its wall: "A German house! Jews may not enter."
Height: 24 cm, diameter of base: 10.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Breaks to handle, professionally restored. Lacking the original lid which was replaced by a pewter lid (with no ceramics).