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Tin glazed earthenware tankard, painted in famille verte enamels with two stag and two boar hunting scenes and the date 1533; pewter mounts and cover with ball-shaped thumbpiece.
Earthenware, tin-glazed and painted in blue, green, yellow, red, brown, grey and black enamels. Cylindrical with a strap handle of D section to the top of which is attached a hinged pewter lid with a cast ball-shaped thumbpiece. There is a pewter mount round the rim of the tankard and another round its lower edge. The sides are decorated with a central hunting trophy comprising a partly draped nude figure holding a bow and arrow, a drape with a stag's head in front of it, two hunting horns, foliage and scrolls, below which is the date '1733'. On the right there is a stag-hunting scene with a boar-hunting scene below, and on the left a boar-hunting scene with a stag-hunting scene below. At the top and bottom of the sides there is a red border of groups of three semi-circles. In the middle of the cover there is an inset medallion of a Saint or cleric seated at a desk on which rests a book and a Crucifix, also the engraved inscription 'JCM/1733'.
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 26 cm
Length: 18.4 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: Bought
(1944)
Second quarter of 18th century
Production date:
dated
AD 1733
Lid, Foot Mount composed of pewter
Accession number: EC.1-1944
Primary reference Number: 76865
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Tankard"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76865 Accessed: 2022-07-03 16:25:54
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