Tankard
date: label: date made
content: 1716
notes: label: Description
content: Repoussé chased, raised cylindrical peg tankard with a flat-top dome lid, applied molded rim, and a cast crouching-lion-and-ball figure for the thumb piece and three feet. Overall floral decoration is interrupted by script engraving on lid "Thomas / Thomassen / Elisabeth / NilsDaatter / anno 1716". Five-knuckle hinge with cast grotesque mask; hollow, D-section, S-curve handle has a stamped line of beads on face and a flat curvilinear shield terminal. Five ball pegs inside. Underside of rounded bottom struck once "TS" in raised serif letters in a notched oval or quatrefoil surround below centerpoint.
label: Description
content: Maker is Thore Sorenson (Sørensen, Sörensen; 1794-1732) of Aalborg, Denmark.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Denmark: Nordjylland, Ålborg
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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 Charles and Rosanna Batchelor Memorial, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.61.1062
label: catalog number
content: 61.1062
label: accession number
content: 233749
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tankard
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 7/8 in x 7 1/4 in x 6 in; 17.4625 cm x 18.415 cm x 15.24 cm