Tankard

Artists

Description

Of slightly tapering cylindrical form on cast reeded foot rim, the upper rim with applied band, the tubular scroll handle with hexagonal flat terminal; the low domed hinged cover with scalloped front and cast three-part thumb-piece; the interior set at the back with a vertical line of pegs set at intervals.

Dimensions

24.8 x 27.3 x 19 cm (9 3/4 x 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.) 1799 g

Provenance

Private Collector, London, sold [through Christie's London, December 12, 1928, lot 55]. The work was lot 55. Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949.