Tankard
date: label: date made
content: ca 1700
notes: label: Description
content: Oversized partial-gilt raised and repoussé chased cylindrical tankard with a flat-domed lid topped by a ball knop, a wide scored band at rim, and a domed circular foot. Pairs of leafy volutes and fruits fill domed portions of lid and foot; body adorned with scenes of two couples in a forest, both men in Roman-style military dress, separated by a servant tending two dogs. Cast convex split scroll thumbpiece attaches to three-knuckle hinge; domed ends on hinge pin. Cast triple C scroll handle. Ball knop, handle and foot are screwed on with quatrefoil washers. Gilt washed interior. Exterior edge of lid, rim band, and edge of foot are struck with two marks, a pyr or pinecone and the raised serif letters "GB" in an oval. Underside of flat bottom engraved "95 1/2 loh(?)".
label: Description
content: Maker is Gottlieb Bauer of Augsburg, Germany.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Bavaria, Augsburg
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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 Colonel William E. Shipp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.62.0055
label: catalog number
content: 62.0055
label: accession number
content: 226997
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tankard
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gold (gilt wash material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/4 in x 6 3/8 in x 8 5/8 in; 19.685 cm x 16.1925 cm x 21.9075 cm