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Tankard

Dateca. 1710

OriginEngland, London, Fulham

MediumSalt-glazed stoneware and silver

DimensionsOverall: 4 15/16 × 4 5/8 (including handle) × 3 3/8 (body at widest point) in. (12.5 × 11.7 × 8.6cm)

Credit LineMuseum Purchase and partially funded by Troy D. Chappell Fund and C. Thomas Hamlin III Fund

Object number2023-321

DescriptionBrown salt-glazed stoneware tankard: straight cylindrical mug with trimmed turned foot; ribbed handle with a pinched and pressed double-diamond lower terminal; the oval excise mark of a crowned “AR” for Queen Anne below the lower handle terminal interrupting the foot turnings; opposite the handle is an impressed oval medallion depicting the figure Brittania; the body and handle iron-dipped to the turned foot; the medallion left white; a silver band with cut-card work mounts the mouth of the vessel and is seamed above the handle (solder inside with lap joint) and marked in relief twice “IW” within a shield to the right of the handle and engraved “1 = 4 = 12” above the handle.
InscribedThe silver rim engraved “1 = 4 = 12” above the handle.
MarkingsMug with oval excise mark of a crowned “AR” for Queen Anne.

The silver mount marked in relief twice “IW” within a shield to the right of the handle.
ProvenanceBefore March 2004, unknown but in the trade (England); March 9–20, 2004, Garry Atkins, An Exhibition of English Pottery (London, UK); March 21, 2004 – February 12, 2021, Constance Pember and Dudley James Godfrey Jr. (Milwaukee, WI); February 12, 2021 – November 10, 2021 [Martyn Edgell Antiques, Ltd., Nassington, Peterborough, UK]; November 29, 2023 - present, purchased by The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, Virginia)