{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O1130906"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1130906/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006AU1115/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006AU1115/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2006AU1115","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O1130906/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O1130906","accessionNumber":"M.61-1941","objectType":"Tankard","titles":[{"title":"miniature tankard","type":"generic title"}],"summaryDescription":"Miniature silver models of household goods and   furnishings were principally made in England (where  they  were called 'toys') and The Netherlands in the eighteenth  century. Silver is precious, and these  'toys' were not  childrens' playthings. They could be collected and  displayed in the dolls' houses that  became increasingly  popular in the eighteenth century, or assembled in  cabinets as objects to amuse and treasure.","physicalDescription":"Silver, gilded. Pear-shaped body, decorated with four vertical panels of alternate gadrooning and fluting, standing on a spreading shaped foot. 'S' scroll handle and domed, gadrooned lid with trefid thumb-piece.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":"maker's mark a duck, unidentified."}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"silver","id":"AAT11029"}],"techniques":[{"text":"chasing","id":"AAT54016"},{"text":"casting","id":"AAT53104"},{"text":"gilding","id":"AAT53789"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Silver, chased, cast and gilded.","categories":[{"text":"Dolls & Toys","id":"THES48967"},{"text":"Silver","id":"THES251836"},{"text":"Drinking","id":"THES48965"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"YVA","id":"THES48593"},"images":["2006AU1115"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"CA002","id":"THES388277"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"tankard","id":"AAT43256"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Netherlands","id":"x29020"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1740-1760","earliest":"1740-01-01","latest":"1760-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Bequest of Miss Phoebe Marks","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"8.9","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"04/12/2024","earliest":"2024-12-04","latest":"2024-12-04"},"part":"","note":"Converted from register, which gives height as 3½ inches."},{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"2.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"04/12/2024","earliest":"2024-12-04","latest":"2024-12-04"},"part":"","note":"Taken from register, which records 'width of base 1 1/10 inch'"}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"This silver ‘toy’ is one of 154 silver 'toys' that Miss Phoebe Marks left to the Museum on her death in November 1940. She had inherited some of the pieces from her mother, and the rest of her collection had been put together by her brother, Murray Marks (1840-1918). Murray was one of the best-known dealers in paintings and decorative art objects of the 1860s onwards, who sold (and donated) items of furniture, porcelain and sculpture to the South Kensington Museum (as the V&A then was).\r\nThe V&A was not the only beneficiary of Phoebe’s generosity. In her will she left money to various charitable causes, including the Jewish Board of Guardians (now Jewish Care) to help poor Jewish immigrants, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Battersea Dogs’ Home and ‘to each of my maids Cornelia Rose Ripsher and Caroline Beatrice Ripsher the sum of two thousand pounds’. Cornelia was her cook, and Caroline her house parlour maid.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Miniature tankard, silver, gilded, maker's mark a duck; Dutch, 1740-1760.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Poliakoff, Miranda. <u>Silver Toys & Miniatures</u>. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, ?1986."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["M.61-1941"],"accessionNumberNum":"61","accessionNumberPrefix":"M","accessionYear":1941,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-11-28","recordCreationDate":"2009-07-01","availableToBook":false}}