Tankard
date: label: date made
content: 1750-1775
notes: label: Description
content: Stepped flat-top lidded tankard engraved with line of descent to donor on front of body. Raised straight tapered sides; flared and scored rim; and applied molded base. Lid crenellated and engraved at front. Cast S-curve scroll thumbpiece attaches to five-knuckle hinge with baluster drop. Hollow, D-section, S-curve handle has a curved rounded point terminal. Struck once on bottom underside over centerpoint "EP" in raised serif letters in a rectangle. Centerpoint on inside and outside of lid.
label: Description
content: Maker is Elias Pelletreau (1726-1810); worked in New York, NY, 1747-1750: Southampton, Long Island, 1750-1776; Simsbury, CT, circa 1776-1780; Saybrook, CT, circa 1780-1782; and Southampton, Long Island, 1782-1810. His four surviving account books include the sale of fixty-six tankards.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Southampton
topic: label: Subject
content: Beverages
label: Subject
content: Drinking
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Janet Newbold Stewart
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.1142.01
label: accession number
content: 1979.1142
label: catalog number
content: 1979.1142.01
label: catalog number
content: 1977.1142.1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tankard
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 3/4 in x 7 1/2 in x 5 1/4 in; 17.145 cm x 19.05 cm x 13.335 cm