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Tankard
Marked by: Isaac Dighton (free 1672, died 1707)
English (London)
1699–1700
Medium/Technique
Silver (Britannia standard)
Dimensions
Overall: 21.6 x 22.9 x 14.6 cm (8 1/2 x 9 x 5 3/4 in.)
Weight: 34 oz 14 dwt (1081g)
Weight: 34 oz 14 dwt (1081g)
Credit Line
Gift of Alan and Simone Hartman and Harriet J. Bradbury Fund
Accession Number2001.81
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsSilver hollowware
DescriptionOf slightly tapering form on spreading molded foot, with applied band around the lower body, the handle extending from cut-card decoration. Slightly domed top with scalloped lip, flange with scribed rings, scrolled thumbpieces and baluster-shaped finial rising from cut-card foliage.
Marks
Struck on side by handle with hallmarks (lion's head erased, Britannia, date letter for 1699-1700) and with maker's mark "DI" (Grimwade 476) of Isaac Dighton; the cover with maker's mark struck four times by thumbpiece, the handle with maker's mark struck once.
ProvenanceBy 1990, Lord McAlpine of West Green; May 17, 1990, sold by Lord McAlpine at Sotheby's, West Green House, lot 798, where most probably bought by Alan and Simone Hartman, New York, NY; 2001, gift of Alan and Simone Hartman. (Accession date: February 21, 2001)