Tankard
date: label: date made
content: 1731
notes: label: Description
content: Tankard with a raised stepped-and-domed lid and straight tapered sides with applied moldings around rim, midbody and base; no finial. Cast S-curve scroll thumbpiece attaches to five-knuckle hinge with pendant drop. Hollow, D-section, S-curve handle with rounded spade terminal; no strut. Bottom underside inscribed "W*M to I*C" in engraved shaded serif letters and lightly incised "JS". Struck with four marks on exterior below rim to right of handle and on interior of lid: "HP" in raised script between stars in a curvilinear surround; a lion passant facing left in a rectangle; a crowned leopard's head in a pentagonal surround; and the raised serif date letter "Q" in a pentagonal surround. Centerpoints on lid exterior and bottom underside.
label: Description
content: Mark was used by Humphrey Payne of London, England, between 1726 and 1738.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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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 John Smithson and John Smithson, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.391176
label: catalog number
content: 391176
label: accession number
content: 189508
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tankard
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 7 3/8 in x 5 in; 17.78 cm x 18.7325 cm x 12.7 cm