Tankard

Inscription: BOGUSLAUS D[ei] G[ratia] DUX RADZIWILL [trans.: Boguslaw by the grace of God duc Radziwill.]

ANNA MARIA D[ei] G[ratia] DUCISSA RADZIWILIA [trans.: Anna Maria by the grace of God duchess Radziwill.]

LUDOVICA CAROLINA RADZIVILIA D[ei] G[ratia] BIRS[ensis] DUB[icensis] SLUC[ensis] & KOP[ylensis] DUX (sic!) [trans.: Louise Charlotte Radziwill by the grace of God duchess of Birze, Dubinka, Sluck and Kopyl.]

AET[atis] 8 AN[no] 1675 D[omini] 27 Feb[ruarius] [trans.: At the age of 8, in the year of our Lord 1675, 27 Feb.]

PATER ME[us] ET MATER MEA DERELINQUER[unt] ME, DOM[inus] A[utem] ASSUMPSIT ME. (Ps. XXVII:X.) [trans.: My father and my mother forsake me, but the Lord took me up.]

D[ei] G[ratia] RUDOLPH AUGUSTUS DUX BR [trans.: By the grace of God Rudolph Augustus duc of Brunswick & Lüneberg.]

Marking: [1] Greek cross crowned (Königsberg town mark, 1684–1703);
[2] B (date letter for 1690);
[3] Monogram I S, 85 in shield (maker's mark of Johann Schwarz, master in Königsberg, November 12, 1665; died 1706/7).

Mrs. Charles H. Truax , New York (until 1913; sold to MMA)