Tankard with cover

Franchi and Son

19th century, after 1651 original · Fictile ivory, mounted in silver, parcel gilt · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

This electrotype is after a late seventeenth-century original (1651), made in Augsburg by Bernhard Straus with silver mounts by Andreas Wickert, at the time of reproduction in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Artist

Franchi and Son

Date

19th century, after 1651 original

Medium

Fictile ivory, mounted in silver, parcel gilt

Culture

British, London, after German, Augsburg original

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Purchase, 1873