This pottery which is part of a jug was produced in Germany and is known as Rhenish Stoneware. The legend on it reads....TMEIN....
This probably originally read;

 
WAN GOT WIL IST MEIN ZIL - 'When God wills it, so is my goal'

(This can be specifically dated from examples made at Cologne; Komödienstrasse between 1549 to the mid 1570’s)

Or it may have read;

WANN GOTT WILL IST MEIN ZEIL – 'When God wills it, my time is up'

Jugs such as this were produced in the second half of the 16^th Century and are linked to the aftermath of the Reformation.

 

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