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Silversmith: Unknown
Coconut and silver-gilt; the foot mounts and cover embossed and chased with strapwork and fruit, and initialled 'TF' with a beaker between, over 'AF'.
Coconut and silver-gilt; the low domed foot is embossed with a border of round and oval cartouches and fruit on a matted ground. The short stem has three flat scroll brackets supporting the pierced calyx which holds the coconut cup. The cup is held by three hinged straps in the form of caryatids holding shells aloft. The rim of the coconut is held by a broad band of ornate embossed and chased gadroons. Above this is a broad rim embossed and chased with strapwork and fruit. The slightly domed cover is similarly decorated and has an urn-shaped finial. The hollow D-section scroll handle has a shield-shaped terminal and a thumbpiece cast as a boy sitting on a U-shaped bar. The cover is engraved with the initials 'TF' with a beaker between, over 'AF'.
History note: Not known before Charles Brinsley Marlay
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Width: 15.2 cm
Width: 6 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
17th Century, Early#
Circa
1600
-
Circa
1650
The mounts only bear a later import mark. There is not a maker's mark or town mark
Surface Of Mounts
composed of
gold
Mounts
composed of
silver
Cup
composed of
coconut
Base
Diameter 11 cm
Diameter 4⅜ in
To Top Of Finial
Height 24.8 cm
Height 9¾ in
Decoration
Finial
Foot
Initials
Accession number: MAR.M.59-1912
Primary reference Number: 119320
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Tankard" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/119320 Accessed: 2024-12-22 23:37:53
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