Tankard
date: label: date made
content: ca 1760
name: label: maker
content: Parker, Daniel
notes: label: Description
content: Tankard with a raised stepped-and-domed lid topped by a cast spiral finial and plain straight tapered sides with applied moldings around rim, midbody and base. Edge of lid fits over rim of body. Cast S-curve, grooved scroll thumbpiece attaches to five-knuckle hinge with pendant drop. Hollow, D-section, S-curve handle is engraved on face "H / M*E" in shaded serif letters and has a domed oval terminal with oval attachment. Struck once on top of lid "D•P" in a curvilinear surround and on bottom underside below centerpoint "D•PARKER" in a rounded-corner rectangle, both with raised serif letters.
label: Description
content: Maker is Daniel Parker (1726-1785) of Boston, MA. Parker was a member of the Sons of Liberty along with fellow silversmith Paul Revere, Jr.
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.383556
label: catalog number
content: 383556
label: accession number
content: 162866
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tankard
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/4 in x 7 in x 5 3/8 in; 22.225 cm x 17.78 cm x 13.6525 cm