A GILT-METAL-MOUNTED VIENNA-STYLE DARK-BLUE-GROUND TANKARD AND COVER with a loop handle, the tapering cylindrical body painted in the manner of Angelika Kauffmann with a nymph dancing accompanied by another playing the tambourine and a cherub in an extensive mountainous landscape within an oval gilt band outlined with foliage-scrolls and diaper-pattern and below a gilt rim, the cover similarly enriched in gilding, mounted with a hinge and a pierced crown-shaped thumb-piece (slight wear to gilding), blue beehive mark, black script, circa 1900

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A GILT-METAL-MOUNTED VIENNA-STYLE DARK-BLUE-GROUND TANKARD AND COVER with a loop handle, the tapering cylindrical body painted in the manner of Angelika Kauffmann with a nymph dancing accompanied by another playing the tambourine and a cherub in an extensive mountainous landscape within an oval gilt band outlined with foliage-scrolls and diaper-pattern and below a gilt rim, the cover similarly enriched in gilding, mounted with a hinge and a pierced crown-shaped thumb-piece (slight wear to gilding), blue beehive mark, black script, circa 1900
6¼in. (16cm.) high

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