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(c) 2014 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Peg Tankard
(c) 2014 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2014 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Peg Tankard

maker (Bergen, 1683 - 1759, Bergen)
Dateabout 1740
Place MadeCopenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark, Europe
MediumSilver
Dimensions8 x 14 cm (2 15/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
ClassificationsVessels
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberM21w14
eMuseum ID730641
EmbARK ObjectID14446
Previous Number612
TMS Source ID3237
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
BibliographyNotesGilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 182. (as probably Danish, Copenhagen; dated about 1700)
Frances L. Preston. "Provenance for a Silver Tankard." Fenway Court (1971), pp. 33-37, figs. 1-3. (as Hans Pettersen Blytt, dated about 1740)
Kaeley Ferguson, "Not Your Grandmother's Silver Cabinet," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 12 January 2021, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/not-your-grandmothers-silver-cabinet 
MarksNotesStamped (exterior, bottom): HB [in an oval, probably the mark of Hans Pettersen Blytt], a gate with seven balls underneath [the mark of the town of Bergen] , a crab, two unidentified marks.
Incised (exterior, lid): Det Heels Tarv, Ved Söefart Fremes ["Navigation furthers the interests of the whole (society)"
Incised (exterior, front): JFD, H:L., D:L. [possibly marks of owners], W 75 lod [1,086 grams]
ProvenanceNotesEntered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
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