1940.65: Tankard

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1940.65

People

Hester Bateman, British (1708 - 1794)

Title

Tankard

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

1788 - 1789

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London

Period

George III (1760-1820)

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/230568

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

20.9 × 17.8 × 11.4 cm (8 1/4 × 7 × 4 1/2 in.)
808 g

Inscriptions and Marks

• hallmark: on body, struck: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter, duty mark [George III, facing right]
• maker's mark: on body, struck: HB [Hester Bateman, Grimwade, no. 961]
• hallmark: interior of cover, struck: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter, duty mark [George III, facing right]
• maker's mark: interior of cover, struck: HB [Hester Bateman, Grimwade, no. 961]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Anonymous gift, 1940.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift

Accession Year

1940

Object Number

1940.65

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Baluster on spreading foot, with applied molded mid-rib and tubular scroll handle with heart-shaped terminal and baluster drop molding; the hinged domed cover with openwork arcaded thumb-piece.

Publication History

• Christopher Hartop, British and Irish Silver in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge, Mass. and New Haven, 2007), pp. 169-170, cat. no. 159, repr. p. 169, details repr. p. 169.

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