Just as the tavern tankards were copies of English mugs, so the bottles and jars had their prototypes among the wares of English, brown-stoneware potters.
Shaping the lip of the Yorktown tankards appears to have been accomplished entirely by hand as was the application of the encircling groove below it.
Some of his tankards may have been made by apprentice potters, which would account for somewhat varying shapes.
Although the tavern tankardsare the most informative of the Yorktown products, numerous other stoneware forms were produced.
The Park Service Yorktown collection includes sections through three saggers of different sizes, one for holding quart tankards (fig.
Nevertheless, the presence on the same lot of fragments of pint tankards adorned with a sprig-molded swan ornament (fig.
To find a way out seemed at present far more important than more silver tankards and salvers.
I have several other tankards bearing makers’ initials and touch marks, and I know they were made prior to 1826, which I notice did not come into the Inspector’s mutilating hand until Queen Victoria was on the throne.
I have frequently come across early plates and tankardsthat differed materially in their hardness.
There were the same old guineas in the wooden bowl, the same tarnished tankards and teapots on view behind the wire-guarded glass, the same obscure hints of untold riches within, in the general aspect of the place.
The silversmith's shop looked exactly the same as when he had first seen it: the gas burning dimly, the tarnished old salvers and tankards gleaming duskily in the faint light, with all manner of purple and greenish hues.
The stranger poured out a couple of tankards full of wine, and having offered one to mine host, he took the other himself.
An hour passed in silence, save for the continual trotting to and fro of the boy from the tap-room, bearing deep, frothing tankards for Mount.
Mount called the tap-boy and commanded cakes and ale for the company, with a harmless swagger; and when the tankards were brought we all drank a silent but significant toast to the dark city outside our windows.
I showed philosophically and conclusively that if there were no tankards there would be no men, that is, no rational or civilised men.
It was an easy step to apply this method of decoration to the cylindrical surfaces of the greattankards and goblets from which the German people drank their beer.
There are in the British Museum two remarkable tankards which, though they do not fall under any of the above divisions, may well be mentioned here.
The eldest presided at the stove, and the other three went continually to and fro, refilling the tankards of beer-drinkers, or dealing out delicacies from the bar.
Some of the beer flagons and tankards exposed for sale here were very beautiful and elaborate, and got up with much artistic taste.
A well-scoured deal table extended along one side of the kitchen, with a cold round of beef, and other hearty viands upon it, over which two foaming tankards of ale seemed mounting guard.
Samuel Johnson, among thick mutton chops and tankards of musty ale, in a cloud of sweet-scented steam that rose from the parted crust of the magnificent pigeon-pie, Ernest Dowson drank absinthe.
Samuel Johnson, among thick mutton chops and tankards of musty ale, in a cloud of sweet-scented steam that rose from the parted crust of the magnificent pigeon pie, Ernest Dowson drank absinthe.
In his house by the Maese, with its roof of tiles, And weathercocks flying aloft in air, There are silver tankards in antique styles, Plunder of convent and castle, and piles Of carpets rich and rare.
Although he drinks many tankardsand pitchers every day, yet will this small bottle make him drowsy.
Brethren; and they raised their tankards to their lips and emptied them at a draught.
Fortified by preliminary tankards of ale and unhampered by prosaick wives and daughters, they retreated from nothing save the business of serving customers.
Long-buried ancestors of the village had carved their rude initials over each high-backed bench and battered the bottoms of the great tankards into unexpected dents by many rollicking choruses in the merry dead past.
Gold and silver tankards or cups suggest the vanity of earthly possessions; salvation is allegorized in a chalice amidst blossoms, death as a crucifix inside a wreath.
But Heda was more careful and finished than Hals, and showed considerable skill and not a little taste in arranging and colouring chased cups and beakers and tankards of precious and inferior metals.
Dudley, his point gained, got up and fetched two fresh tankards of beer.
Dubble, bringing his great fist down on the table with a force that made the tankards jump.
After the meal he ventured to admire the buff-and-gold china in a corner cupboard, and then two great silver tankards on a sideboard.
When my husband would not pay the war tax, as Friends would not, the vendue master took away these tankardsand sold them.
In winter the fire blazed high on the hearth, and the toddy hissed in the noggin; in summer the basket of fruit stood in the breeze-swept hall, and lightly clad black boys tripped in bearing cool tankards of punch and sangaree.
He took two tankards and a key from the shelf, and led the way along a passage.
Too drunk to understand the purport of the words, the soldiers raised their tankards to drink, and then let them fall to the ground with a clatter, the untasted liquor splashing upon the floor.
The Tankards had an only son--an only child, we ought to say.
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