Tankard
Tankard
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- Description
- Flat double dome lid, straight tapered tankard with chair-back thumbpiece, low fillet and applied molded rim and base; quart size. Hollow, D-section, S-curve handle with tongue-and-pip below the three-knuckle hinge secured by a dome-headed pin tapers to a hooded ball terminal; no struts. Indecipherable touchmark ("F[?]") inside bottom.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- tankard
- date made
- 1765 - 1795
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- United States: Connecticut, Hartford
- Physical Description
- pewter (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6 3/4 in x 7 3/8 in x 4 3/4 in; 17.145 cm x 18.7325 cm x 12.065 cm
- ID Number
- 1986.0027.18
- catalog number
- 1986.0027.18
- accession number
- 1986.0027
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Dr. Joseph H. Kler
- subject
- Beverages
- Drinking
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- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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