Tankard: MAR.M.59-1912

Maker(s)

Silversmith: Unknown

Entities

• Tankard
• coconut cup tankard

Categories

• Silver

Description

Coconut and silver-gilt; the foot mounts and cover embossed and chased with strapwork and fruit, and initialled 'TF' with a beaker between, over 'AF'.

Coconut and silver-gilt; the low domed foot is embossed with a border of round and oval cartouches and fruit on a matted ground. The short stem has three flat scroll brackets supporting the pierced calyx which holds the coconut cup. The cup is held by three hinged straps in the form of caryatids holding shells aloft. The rim of the coconut is held by a broad band of ornate embossed and chased gadroons. Above this is a broad rim embossed and chased with strapwork and fruit. The slightly domed cover is similarly decorated and has an urn-shaped finial. The hollow D-section scroll handle has a shield-shaped terminal and a thumbpiece cast as a boy sitting on a U-shaped bar. The cover is engraved with the initials 'TF' with a beaker between, over 'AF'.

Notes

History note: Not known before Charles Brinsley Marlay

Legal notes

C.B. Marlay Bequest

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley

Dating

17th Century, Early
Circa 1600 - Circa 1650

Note

The mounts only bear a later import mark. There is not a maker's mark or town mark