A very old Reinhold Hanke Steins

On December 2020 we bought to an experienced dealer that has been absent for a while a few things at a good price… I loved this stein immediately although I had no idea even if it was old…. I think that I paid about 10 U$ or a bit less for it. You can see It has a number on the base, so it could be German. I had search on line and found using the number 634 the words stein and glaze and found that it is a Reinhold Hanke Stein with scrollwork on this useful page https://www.beerstein.net/item.asp?ItemNum=rha-0634. Also, I had found on this site a vase with the same pattern https://www.theoldstuff.com/en/german-pottery/509-westerwald-reinhold-hanke-stoneware-vase. Mine has lost or never had the metal lid. The glaze is outstanding…. And in fact it seems that van de Velde's association with the firm of Reinhold Hanke resulted in the first examples of Rhenish stoneware to use sang-de-boeuf glazes, thereby bringing the stoneware industry into line with international taste. August Hanke, Reinhold's son and the firm's chemist and technician, had been developing copper-based glazes influenced by those of the French ceramists Delaherche and Dalpayrat, whose work he had admired at the Paris Exhibition of 1900. Hanke's experimental glazes were expensive and risky; there were often huge losses in the firing and the glazes were frequently unsuccessful. Love learning about this old designers……In the second picture you can see the capacity of liquid.....