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Tankard
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Of slightly tapering cylindrical form on broad flaring foot below a moulded band, the rim applied with a similar band, the tubular scroll handle with plain pentagonal flat terminal; the flat hinged domed cover with cast triangular thumb-piece; the front engraved with a coat of arms, helm and crest within foliate scroll mantling
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Private Collector London Anonymous sale Christie's London 1936. The work was lot 77 (Scipio lists the sellers at this sale as S.J. Farrer Evelyn Lady Watson and H.U. Kuester.); Archibald Alexander Hutchinson New York; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum 1949.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Bequest of Archibald A. Hutchinson Esq.
Title: Tankard
Description:
Of slightly tapering cylindrical form on broad flaring foot below a moulded band, the rim applied with a similar band, the tubular scroll handle with plain pentagonal flat terminal; the flat hinged domed cover with cast triangular thumb-piece; the front engraved with a coat of arms, helm and crest within foliate scroll mantling.
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