Tankard: C.2038-1928

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified Hilgert pottery (Possibly)

Entities

• Tankard
• Humpen

Categories

• Stoneware
• Salt-glazed stoneware
• German stoneware

Description

Buff stoneware with applied moulded relief decoration painted in manganese-purple and blue; pewter mounts, cover engraved with */IHS/1772, and oval ball thumbpiece

Buff stoneware, thrown, with applied handle, applied moulded relief decoration painted in blue and manganese-purple, and salt-glaze; pewter mounts, thumbpiece and cover. The cylindrical tankard has a loop handle with a curl of clay below its lower end. It has applied top and lower borders of repeating lozenge diamonds in high relief, painted blue. Above the upper border there is a blue horizontal band, and below the lower border another. On the main field there are three rectangular panels with rounded corners each bearing the same two tier design of a mask and wings flanked by two towers with spires, over a winged cherub's head flanked by boats. In the upper part of each panel are the initials W B on either side of the winged mask, on the left between the towers LUV, and on the right between the towers, D E N. Above and below are borders of U-shapes painted in manganese-purple. The rim and lower edge have a plain pewter mount. A pewter mount and hinge at the top of the handle are attached to a oval ball thumbpiece with a small knob on top, and a flat-topped cover with gadrooned sides and an eight-pointed star in the middle on which is engaved ' */ IHS / 1772'.

Notes

History note: Ludwig Heinemann, Taunusstrasse 40, Wiesbaden, from whom purchased for 60 marks on 10 October 1908 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, Early
Circa 1700 - 1725

School or Style

Baroque