Tankard
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Tankard
- Manufactory: Vienna
- Factory director: Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier period (1718–1744)
- Date: ca. 1735
- Culture: Austrian, Vienna
- Medium: Hard-paste porcelain
- Dimensions: H. 5 in. (12.7 cm.)
- Classification: Ceramics-Porcelain
- Credit Line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964
- Object Number: 64.101.266
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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