Tankard
date: label: date made
content: ca 1720
notes: label: Description
content: Tankard with a crenellated and engraved, stepped flat-top lid and raised straight tapered sides with applied moldings around rim and base; body engraved on front "GJF" in conjoined foliate script. Cast cocoon thumbpiece attaches to five-knuckle hinge with round tab. Hollow, D-section, S-curve handle has a flat oval terminal. Struck twice on top of lid and once on bottom underside below centerpoint "W.K / B" in raised serif letters in a heart surround. Weight scratched on bottom underside "28-10". Centerpoint on inside and outside of lid. Overall gray-blue cast.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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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.383603
label: catalog number
content: 383603
label: accession number
content: 162866
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tankard
label: Object Type
content: Candleholders
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 8 1/8 in x 5 5/8 in; 19.05 cm x 20.6375 cm x 14.2875 cm