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Production: Unidentified Annaberg pottery
Brown salt-glazed stoneware with cut and relief decoration painted in polychrome enamels; pewter mounts and cover with embossed floral decoration and the inscription: 'ANNA REGINA LVFFTNEGGERIN: MELCHIOR HINTERMAYER ANNO 1665'
Brown stoneware, with kerbschnitt (cut) and moulded relief decoration, and dark brown wash under salt-glaze, painted overglaze in blue, yellow, red and white enamel, and gilded. Pewter mounts and cover with embossed decoration and engraved inscription. The tankard is of squat cylindrical form with strap handle. The middle of the side is decorated with a band of gilded kerbschnitt decoration flanked by red, white and blue slanting lines. Above and below it are bands of foliate cresting in relief painted in all the enamel colours, with yellow horizontal bands above and below. There is a pewter mount round the foot, and rim, and a hinged mount on the handle attached to the thumbpiece and domed cover which is embossed with flowers and foliage. Around its lower edge are engraved the names and date: 'ANNA REGINA LVFFTNEGGERIN: MELCHIOR HINTERMAYER ANNO 1665'.
History note: The Right Hon. Montague Frick, Lord Swaythling (1832-1911); Christie's, 8 May 1924, Catalogue of the objects of art and porcelain, the property of the Right Hon. Montague, first Lord Swaythling deceased, being part of the Swaythling heirlooms . . . . sold by order of the Trustees, part of lot 59; bought by Mr Mallett; sold on 9 May to Dr Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambidge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 10.3 cm
Height: 11.4 cm
Width: 13.3 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 (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Third quarter of 17th century
Production date:
dated
AD 1665
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, yellow, red, and white)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Base
Diameter 11 cm
Body
brown Stoneware
Accession number: C.2074-1928
Primary reference Number: 73077
Old object number: 4410
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 (2023) "Tankard" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73077 Accessed: 2023-03-22 12:28:36
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University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: GR.14.1936
Accession Number: M.56-1961
Accession Number: C.146-2010
Accession Number: GR.151e.1907
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