Tankard

Daniel Christian Fueter

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The silversmith Daniel Christian Fueter was trained in his native Switzerland before moving in 1752 to London and in 1753 to New York. His relatively brief residence in the colonies, between 1754 and 1769, circumscribes the dating of his American oeuvre. In 1769 he returned to Europe, where he died. This tankard, a classic mid-eighteenth-century New York example, is struck underneath with Fueter's maker's mark--DCF in an oval--and is engraved with scratch weight in troy ounces and pennyweights, a standard measure for precious metals.

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