Tankard
Tankard
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- Description
- Double dome lid, straight tapered tankard with projecting crenate lip, chair-back thumbpiece and plain body with applied molded rim and base; quart size. Hollow, D-section, S-curve handle with tongue-and-pip below the three-knuckle hinge tapers to a hooded ball terminal; no strut. Circular "I.W." touchmark of John Will at center of incised circle inside bottom.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- tankard
- date made
- 1752 - 1774
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- Physical Description
- pewter (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 1/8 in x 7 5/8 in x 4 7/8 in; 18.0975 cm x 19.3675 cm x 12.3825 cm
- ID Number
- 1986.0027.15
- catalog number
- 1986.0027.15
- accession number
- 1986.0027
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Dr. Joseph H. Kler
- subject
- Beverages
- Drinking
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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