Object Description
A very charming early English silver flat lidded tankard. This small size is often termed a lady’s tankard. Britannia standard silver*. Lovely plain design and hand beaten silver. The tankard has a simple flat sided form and S scroll handle finishing in a decorative thumb piece. Uninscribed.
Contains 800 ml. Weight 636 grams, 20.4 troy ounces.
Height 15 cm (to top of thumb piece). Spread 17 cm. Diameter 10 cm (top), 9.7 cms (base).
London 1700.
Maker Gabriel Player.
GABRIEL PLAYER
Gabriel Player, London silversmith, apprenticed to John Hudson 1687, free 1696. Livery 1708. Mark entered as largeworker 1700.