Tankard
date: label: date made
content: 1745-1750
notes: label: Description
content: Tankard with a raised stepped-and-domed lid topped by a cast spiral or flame finial and straight tapered sides with applied moldings around rim, midbody and base. Cast S-curve scroll thumbpiece with anthemion on reverse attaches to five-knuckle hinge with pendant drop. Hollow, D-section, S-curve handle is engraved on face "CS" in conjoined foliate script letters and has a scrolled tab terminal with circular attachment. Struck once on rim exterior to left of handle and on bottom underside "W.BURT" in raised serif letters in a rounded-corner rectangle. Bottom underside incised "HISMSH." above mark; old red-bordered white paper collection label. No centerpoint.
label: Description
content: Maker is William Burt (1726-1751) of Boston, MA; son of John Burt (1692/3-1746) and brother of Samuel (1724-1754) and Benjamin (1729-1805), all silversmiths.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Estate of Arthur Michael
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.383483
label: catalog number
content: 383483
label: accession number
content: 162866
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tankard
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 7/8 in x 7 in x 4 7/8 in; 20.0025 cm x 17.78 cm x 12.3825 cm