Schafer & Vater Bottle Liquor Flask Decanter Whiskey Nipper Bowler Music Box EUC For Sale

This listing is for a terrific figural musical decanter by SCHAFER & VATER, c. early 1900\'s. Produced during the Jugendstil Era in Germany, this flask is composed of porcelain finished in Schafer & Vater\'s popular brown glaze. This bottle flask depicts a happy, smug-looking bowler with one ball in his hand and another between his legs. The bottom of the bottle asks the question: \"CAN YOU SPARE IT?\" The wind-up musical component functions well and plays \"Pour Me A Drink.\" Two partial tags with the song\'s title and the store name \"Sprague Drugs\" in New York are still affixed to the bottom.
Measures approximately 11.5 inches tall.Excellent, preowned condition with no chips, cracks, or crazing.Cork stopper (his hat) is also fully intact and fits well.
Schafer & Vater was best known for its comical or figural items, which stylistically captured the Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) and Art Deco movements. This famed German porzellanfabrik manufactured teapots, jugs, creamers, bottles, match strikers, boxes, planters, etc. A hallmark of its pottery is the fine texture of the clay used in production. Mined locally, the clay was rich with kaolin, which resulted in products featuring a velvety texture and very fine grain. In 1890, Gustav Schaefer and Guenther Vater founded the Schaefer & Vater Porcelain Factory in Volkstedt Rudolstadt, Thuringia, Germany with the goal of producing high end porcelain. By 1910, the American firm of Sears Roebuck & Company began to import and distribute Schafer & Vater pottery into the United States. Schafer & Vater produced a wide range of hard paste porcelain wares, including luxury items, figurines, and doll heads. It also produced soft paste porcelain -- bisque, Majolica, and Jasperware were other product lines. The firm closed in 1962. It is reported that in 1972, the East German government assumed full control of the vacant factory, and all of Schafer & Vater\'s records and molds were destroyed.
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