These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
Production: Unknown
Tin glazed earthenware tankard, painted in famille verte enamels with two stag and two boar hunting scenes and the date 1533; pewter mounts and cover with ball-shaped thumbpiece.
Earthenware, tin-glazed and painted in blue, green, yellow, red, brown, grey and black enamels. Cylindrical with a strap handle of D section to the top of which is attached a hinged pewter lid with a cast ball-shaped thumbpiece. There is a pewter mount round the rim of the tankard and another round its lower edge. The sides are decorated with a central hunting trophy comprising a partly draped nude figure holding a bow and arrow, a drape with a stag's head in front of it, two hunting horns, foliage and scrolls, below which is the date '1733'. On the right there is a stag-hunting scene with a boar-hunting scene below, and on the left a boar-hunting scene with a stag-hunting scene below. At the top and bottom of the sides there is a red border of groups of three semi-circles. In the middle of the cover there is an inset medallion of a Saint or cleric seated at a desk on which rests a book and a Crucifix, also the engraved inscription 'JCM/1733'.
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 26 cm
Length: 18.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1944)
18th Century, second quarter#
Production date:
dated
AD 1733
Lid, Foot Mount composed of pewter
Accession number: EC.1-1944
Primary reference Number: 76865
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Tankard" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76865 Accessed: 2024-11-25 04:01:33
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76865
|title=Tankard
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-25 04:01:33|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-76865
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/EC_1_1944_281_29.jpg"
alt="Tankard"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Tankard</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
