Tankard
Cary Dunn American
The interlaced script monogram, RLM, engraved in late rococo taste on the cover of this tankard is contemporary with the date of manufacture, but the heraldic crest and motto-- VIRTUS ET NATALE MEUM (Virtue is my Birthright)-- executed in bright-cut engraving on the body appear to have been added a generation later. Both the tankard and a pair of accompanying beakers (see 13.197.2-.3) descended in the Livingston-Tillotson family.
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