“Four Jacks”

Catalog No. 205

Pottery or stoneware, relief, 0.5L, pewter lid.

Text:
“Vier Buben zum Skaten, das Spiel muss geraten.”
(Four Jacks in Scat, the play must succeed.)
“Ein Spiel in ehren, soll Niemand verwehren.”
(An honorable game, no one should deny.)

Both the name given to this stein and the text make reference to “Skat” (or Scat), a card game popular in Germany in which jacks are high trump cards.