Tankard
ca. 1670-1680 (made)
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Plain, cylindrical covered tankard with hinged lid supported by 3 ball feet in the form of pomegranites, with cast handle surmounted by lion finial, the lid elaborately engraved with leaves in the Floral Baroque style and a coat-of-arms and the initials NBS*CB 1680
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| Materials and techniques | Silver |
| Brief description | Tankard, silver, cast and engraved, Denmark (Elsinore), mark of Joen (Jochum) Andersen, ca. 1670-1680 |
| Physical description | Plain, cylindrical covered tankard with hinged lid supported by 3 ball feet in the form of pomegranites, with cast handle surmounted by lion finial, the lid elaborately engraved with leaves in the Floral Baroque style and a coat-of-arms and the initials NBS*CB 1680 |
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| Object history | Purchase - (£60) Moller-Le Champion, Gibbstown, County Meath, Ireland From Catalogue of Scandinavian and Baltic Silver, RW Lightbown, V&A, 1975; Andersen fisrt mentioned 1649, died in 1679. The arms and mantling on the lid are substituted for earlier ones still partly visible underneath. The date 1680 has also been substituted for an earlier date and the initial sabove it are squeezed in asymmetrically to fit the decoration. The general form ad pomegranate feet are found in Denmark at least as early as 1648, but the rich and free swirling style of the engraved Floral Baroque suggests a date around 1670. |
| Bibliographic reference | Catalogue of Scandinavian and Baltic Silver, RW Lightbown, V&A, 1975; Scandinavian Domestic Silver, Charles Oman, V&A 1959
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| Accession number | M.479-1910 |
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| Record created | February 9, 2004 |
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