Large, inverted trumpet shape, lidded and spouted flagon with molded rim and midband on three cast cherub-head feet. Double-domed lid with heart-shaped cover over the inset, V-shaped, curvilinear spout. Hollow S-scroll handle with scrollback thumb piece, ridged and tongued thumbrest, and lower bud terminal with oval attachment. Bottom underside struck once with a large touchmark of Johann Christophe Heyne.
Maker is Johann Cristoph Heyne (1715-1781), a Saxon-born and -trained pewterer who was also a Moravian minister and teacher. He worked briefly in Germany (now part of Poland), Stockholm and London before immigrating to America in 1742 as part of the first group of Moravians to settle in Pennsylvania. He lived in Bethlehem and Tulpehocken, traveled to Dublin, Ireland as a missionary and finally made his home in Lancaster around 1752. Almost all of the roughly 100 known pieces of Heyne pewter are for ecclesiastical use.
