1949.114.61: Grape Scissors
Tools and Equipment
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1949.114.61
- People
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William Fearn, British (1769 - )
William Eley, British (born 1777)
- Title
- Grape Scissors
- Classification
- Tools and Equipment
- Work Type
- scissors
- Date
- 1815-1816
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
- Period
- George III (1760-1820)
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/228677
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver, gilt
- Dimensions
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17.46 x 5.4 cm (6 7/8 x 2 1/8 in.)
90 g - Inscriptions and Marks
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- hallmark: arm, struck: lion passant, duty mark [George III, facing right]
- hallmark: arm, struck: date letter
- maker's mark: arm, struck: WE / WF [in square punch] [William Eley and William Fearn, Grimwade, no. 3112]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1949.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Archibald A. Hutchinson, Esq.
- Accession Year
- 1949
- Object Number
- 1949.114.61
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Scissor-form with fiddle, thread and shell pattern arms.
Publication History
- Christopher Hartop, British and Irish Silver in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge, Mass. and New Haven, 2007), p. 180, cat. no. 174, repr. p. 180, details repr. p. 180.
Verification Level
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