Six German silver coloured and coloured glass figures, circa 1910, comprising: three standing knights with carved ivory faces, stamped 925, Sterling and Germany, two in armour with lances with pennants, one with a stag, the other a shield, the last in 16th century dress with a pike, on canted-square bases, 16cm (6 1/2in) high and smaller; two figures from folk tales with carved ivory faces, of Till Eulenspiegel with an owl and mirror and the Pied Piper of Hamelin with a rat on his pipe, each on a circular base with owl feet and rat feet respectively, 13cm (5in) high; and a figure of a pot maker, stamped 13 and N, seated with his tools, on an oblong base, 10cm (4in) high, 977g (31.4 oz) gross Till Eulenspiegel is an impudent trickster figure originating in Middle Low German folklore. His tales were disseminated in popular printed editions narrating a string of lightly connected episodes that outlined his picaresque career. He made his main entrance in English-speaking culture late in the nineteenth century as Owlglass, but was first mentioned in English literature by Ben Jonson in his play The Alchemist or even earlier as Owleglasse by Henry Porter in The Two Angry Women of Abington of 1599.
Six German silver coloured and coloured glass figures, circa 1910, comprising: three standing knights with carved ivory faces, stamped 925, Sterling and Germany, two in armour with lances with pennants, one with a stag, the other a shield, the last in 16th century dress with a pike, on canted-square bases, 16cm (6 1/2in) high and smaller; two figures from folk tales with carved ivory faces, of Till Eulenspiegel with an owl and mirror and the Pied Piper of Hamelin with a rat on his pipe, each on a circular base with owl feet and rat feet respectively, 13cm (5in) high; and a figure of a pot maker, stamped 13 and N, seated with his tools, on an oblong base, 10cm (4in) high, 977g (31.4 oz) gross Till Eulenspiegel is an impudent trickster figure originating in Middle Low German folklore. His tales were disseminated in popular printed editions narrating a string of lightly connected episodes that outlined his picaresque career. He made his main entrance in English-speaking culture late in the nineteenth century as Owlglass, but was first mentioned in English literature by Ben Jonson in his play The Alchemist or even earlier as Owleglasse by Henry Porter in The Two Angry Women of Abington of 1599.
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