Tankard

Cary Dunn American

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 704

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. The monogram likely refers to Judge Robert (1718-1775) and Margaret (1724-1800) Livingston. Both the tankard and a pair of accompanying beakers (see 13.197.2-.3) descended in the Livingston-Tillotson family.

Tankard, Cary Dunn (active ca. 1765–96), Silver, American

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Tankard, Cary Dunn (active ca. 1765–96), Silver, American
Tankard, Cary Dunn (active ca. 1765–96), Silver, American
Tankard, Cary Dunn (active ca. 1765–96), Silver, American
Tankard, Cary Dunn (active ca. 1765–96), Silver, American

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