Jug with a dancing couple

Stoneware jug on a high foot with a cylindrical body, rounded shoulder, and wide neck. Profiles on the neck, body, and foot. Covered with a brown engobe. On the belly in relief a printed and applied band with a peasant dance. On the left are the musicians with the dancing couple next to them. In the second compartment from the left the date '1597'. Below the band the inscription 'GERHET DV MVS DAPER BLASEN SO DANSSEN DEI BVREN ALS WEREN SI RASEN FRS VF SPRICHT BASTOR ICH VER DANS DY KAPA KO[...]'. Between the musicians and the first couple the mark 'W.Z.'. The lower part of the belly slopes obliquely to the foot and, like the shoulder, has incised compartments. On the neck a band in relief with vases with floral scrolls interrupted by masks in medallions. Raeren.