tankard

Object NameBeer Mug or Tankard

Made FromLead Glass

Dateabout 1790

Place MadeEngland

TechniqueBlown

SizeOverall H: 18.5 cm; Rim Diam: 10.5 cm; Foot Diam: 8.25 cm

Accession Number50.2.55

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

East Side Winter Antiques Show

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

Physical DescriptionColorless lead glass; blown. Slender cylindrical bowl with slightly spreading rim and rounding slightly at bottom, applied high sloping foot, rough pontil mark; hollow finely-ribbed (pattern-molded) loop handle with turned-back end; decoration: incised lines around rim, rounding part of body with so-called gadroon molding upon a cup-like casing; formalized engraved decoration above molding: "W POTTER" above a hop cone with leaves and tendrils flanked by stalks of barley curving toward handle, bird in cage above barley head on one side and, on the other, an insect.
Provenance

Source Steuben Glass, Inc. (American, founded 1903) - 1950-10-01

Former Collection Colonel Henrage