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This object, one of a pair, is decorated with typical Elizabethan strapwork and foliage. It shows little sign of wear and may have been used primarily for display. Pairs of Elizabethan tankards are extremely rare and only one other pair is known.\r\n\r\nThis object would once have been part of the buffet. The buffet of plate was an important feature of medieval and Renaissance banquets. Often made of oak or walnut, buffets usually stood at the side of a dining room, their shelves filled with tablewares. Gold and silver vessels were displayed to convey a sense of the owner's wealth. Normally these vessels were used for the service of food and drink, but on great state occasions they would be set out purely for display.\r\n\r\nSir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world’s great decorative art collections, including silver, mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes.  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John Allnott, sale, Christie's, lot 41, March 23, 1966.  Arthur Houghton, Wye Plantation, Maryland.  Purchased from S.J.  Shrubsole Corporation, New York, 1981.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Silver-gilt tankard; London, 1602-03, probably John Bottomley","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Sotheby's 217th Season 1960-61</u>, p. 23."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Christie's Bi-centenary Review of the Year 1965-66</u>, London: Hutchinson, pp.118-119."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Clayton, Michael.  <u>The Collector's dictionary of the silver and gold of Great Britain and North America</u>.  London: Country Life Books/Hamlyn Publishing Group, 1971, pl. 40, p. 292."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Clayton, Michael.  <u>The Collector's dictionary of the silver and gold of Great Britain and North America</u>.  2nd ed.  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