Tankard with man drinking from jug
This vessel recalls sixteenth-century German salt-glazed stoneware tankards and flagons. However, the flat style of the decoration and the unmodulated use of color, particularly for the boy’s skin, are novel to the nineteenth century.
Artwork Details
- Title: Tankard with man drinking from jug
- Manufactory: Haviland & Co. (American and French, 1864–1931)
- Factory director: Under the technical direction of Ernest Chaplet (French, Sèvres 1835–1909 Choisy-le-Roi)
- Date: ca. 1885
- Culture: French, Paris
- Medium: Stoneware
- Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): 13 1/4 × 5 7/8 × 3 7/8 in., 3.9 lb. (33.7 × 14.9 × 9.8 cm, 1.7 kg)
- Classification: Ceramics-Pottery
- Credit Line: Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, Purchase, Acquisitions Fund; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; and 2011 Benefit Fund, 2013
- Object Number: 2013.475
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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