Tankard
date: label: date made
content: 1760 - 1800
notes: label: Description
content: Double dome lid, plain bulbous or tulip-shape tankard having a drop-pierced chair-back thumbpiece with tongue-and-pip on its front and flared band at rim on a stepped cyma-molded circular base; quart size. Hollow, D-section, S-curve handle is engraved "S I" on the long, trefoil tongue-and-pip below the five-knuckle hinge and tapers to a hooded ball terminal; no strut. Touchmark at center of a pair of incised concentric circles inside bottom appears to be a crowned pair of birds standing facing inwards with "LO VE" at left and right inside a beaded circle.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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: Bequest of Dr. Joseph H. Kler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0027.91
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0027.91
label: accession number
content: 1986.0027
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tankard
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/4 in x 6 5/8 in x 4 1/4 in; 19.685 cm x 16.8275 cm x 10.795 cm