Tankard

Cary Dunn

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The interlaced script monogram, RLM, engraved in late rococo taste on the cover of this tankard is contemporary with the date of manufacture, but the heraldic crest and motto-- VIRTUS ET NATALE MEUM (Virtue is my Birthright)-- executed in bright-cut engraving on the body appear to have been added a generation later. Both the tankard and a pair of accompanying beakers (see 13.197.2-.3) descended in the Livingston-Tillotson family.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.

Metropolitan Museum of Art