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Catalog No. 3099
Pottery, etched, 3.0L, inlaid lid, signed by H. Schlitt.
Text:
Diogenes der alte Narr verdrossen hockt er da und starr
wo selbst der alten G�tter ew�ge Jugendkraft
verschm�ht die Liebe nicht noch weniger den Rebensaft.�
(Diogenes the old fool sits there weary and motionless
where even the old gods� eternal power of youth
does not spurn love nor even less the juice of the grape.)
The artwork on this stein originally appeared in a 1908 vault painting done by Heinrich Schlitt in the Munich Ratskeller. Diogenes (412-323 B.C.), a Greek Philosopher, believed that only by depriving oneself of everything that is superfluous could a person hope to be free of desire and therefore unhappiness. He is said to have lived in a large wine urn, depicted here as a wooden barrel. It is interesting to note that the iron tools necessary to make such a barrel would not exist until after 400 A.D., some 700 years following the death of Diogenes. Similarly, the lantern in Schiltt�s drawing would have been more appropriate to the 19th century than to early Greece.
Master stein to No. 3089.
Price Range: $1,000-$1,200
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