Miniature tankard
George Manjoy
1685–86
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
Overall: 1 1/4 × 1 1/8 in. (3.2 × 2.9 cm)
Classification
Metalwork-Silver-Miniature
Culture
British, London
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Joseph M. and Aimee Loeb May Collection, 1963
Accession Number
63.53.91
About the Artist
George Manjoy · 1685–1685
George Manjoy was a British artist active in the late seventeenth century, a period of considerable vitality in British art shaped by the influence of continental European painting. Working in an era when portraiture dominated British artistic life and when painters such as Sir Godfrey Kneller set the prevailing standard for fashionable representation, Manjoy participated in a visual culture incre...