Possibly
Unidentified
(Glasshouse)
Colourless lead-glass, blown, with applied threads and handle. Cylindrical with a projecting base and slightly waisted sides and an applied handle which rises a little above the rim at the top and has a tooled lower end. There is an applied thread above the lower end of the handle and another below the upper end of the handle. The pontil mark has been ground away.
History note: Howard Phillips, London, from whom purchased, March, 1985; Sir Ivor and Lady Batchlor, St Andrew's Fife; Sir Ivor died on 24 April 2005; on loan since 2006 (Syndicate of 30 January)
Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest through The Art Fund
Height: 11.2 cm
Width: 11.6 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(2015-04-27)
by
Batchelor, Ivor, Sir and Lady
Early 19th Century
Circa
1800
CE
-
1810
CE
Decoration Handle
Accession number: C.160-2015
Primary reference Number: 206905
Old object number: 46
Entry form number: 648
Old loan number: AAL.162-2006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Tankard"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/206905 Accessed: 2022-08-16 05:10:36
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|title=Tankard
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2022-08-16 05:10:36|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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