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Tankard
Tankard, pearl-glazed earthenware, drum-shaped, with recessed base, and wide strap handle having double grooves and foliate moulded thumbpiece and lower terminal. Painted with the half-length figure of a druid in profile to left with one arm raised on a dark brown ground within an oval gilt frame of intersecting ellipses each containing three dots. He is clad in a brown robe, wears a circlet of oak leaves, and has shoulder-length grey hair and a beard. On either side, large gilded sprays, one of oak leaves, barley, and acorns with a butterfly, and the other comprising a large tulip, leaves and a floret with a large peacock butterfly.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 32245
Acquisition
Gift, 8/2/1994
Given by W. J. Grant-Davidson
Measurements
Height
(cm): 15.5
Length
(cm): 16.5
Width
(cm): 11.5
Height
(in): 6
Length
(in): 6
Width
(in): 4
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
pearlware
Location
In store
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