Tankard

Manufactory Vienna
Factory director Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier period Austrian

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 533

Representations of coopers, appropriate for figural handles of barrel-shaped tankards, are known on six surviving examples made at Du Paquier. Barrel-shaped tankards in three sizes are frequently mentioned in the list of prizes in a lottery of Du Paquier porcelain held in 1735 and are almost always referred to as Wermuth-Fass or Wermuth-Vässel (literally, “Wermuth barrel”). Wermuth was a popular type of beer or wine flavored with bitter wormwood.

Tankard, Vienna, Hard-paste porcelain, Austrian, Vienna

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Tankard, Vienna, Hard-paste porcelain, Austrian, Vienna
Tankard, Vienna, Hard-paste porcelain, Austrian, Vienna
Tankard, Vienna, Hard-paste porcelain, Austrian, Vienna
Tankard, Vienna, Hard-paste porcelain, Austrian, Vienna

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