Tankard
Hans Glier
ca. 1560 · Salt-glazed stoneware · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
German stoneware tankards were brought to America in large numbers on Dutch fur-trading ships. Shards of these popular vessels have been uncovered at seventeenth century sites in New York and New England.
- Artist
- Hans Glier
- Date
- ca. 1560
- Medium
- Salt-glazed stoneware
- Culture
- German, Saxony (Zeitz or Waldenburg)
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1954
