Tankard
date: label: date made
content: 1760-1770
notes: label: Description
content: Tankard with a raised stepped-and-domed lid topped by a cast spiral finial and straight tapered sides with applied moldings around rim, midbody and base. Front of body engraved on upper half with an armorial device or coat of arms featuring an escutcheon with lion rampant charge and dotted field, the crest of a seated lion with right forepaw raised, and the motto "TOUT JOUR FIDELLE"; lower half has "GPH" in foliate script. Cast S-curve, grooved scroll thumbpiece attaches to five-knuckle hinge with pendant drop. Hollow, D-section, S-curve handle has a domed oval terminal with oval attachment. Struck twice on rim exterior, once to left and to right of handle, "BENJAMIN / BURT" in raised slanted serif letters in a curvilinear surround. Weight incised on bottom underside above centerpoint "oz / 28 = 13".
label: Description
content: Maker is Benjamin Burt (1729-1805) of Boston, MA; son of John Burt (1692/3-1746) and brother to Samuel (1724-1754) and William (1726-1751), all silversmiths.
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.383475
label: catalog number
content: 383475
label: accession number
content: 162866
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tankard
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 3/8 in x 8 in x 5 3/8 in; 23.8125 cm x 20.32 cm x 13.6525 cm