Tankard

Artists

Description

Baluster on spreading foot, with applied molded mid-rib and tubular scroll handle with heart-shaped terminal and baluster drop molding, the hinged domed cover with openwork arcaded thumb-piece, the front engraved with an heraldic achievement on a later-applied oval cartouche suspended from ribbons and swags.

Dimensions

21.6 x 18.4 x 11.4 cm (8 1/2 x 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.) 850 g

Provenance

Edwin Hale Abbot Jr., Cambridge, MA, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1966.