1949.114.109.1-2: Pair of Casters

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1949.114.109.1-2

People

David King, Irish

Title

Pair of Casters

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

1717-1718

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Ireland, Dublin

Period

George I (1714-1727)

Culture

Irish

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/142038

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

19.69 x 8.89 cm (7 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.)
unspecified: 529.3 g

Inscriptions and Marks

• hallmark: under bases; struck: crowned harp, date letter, and with maker's mark; the cover flanges with traces of crowned harp and, on one, with another indecipherable mark

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York; bequest to 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

1949.114.109.1-2

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Of cylindrical form on spreading cast dentilated bases, with applied moulded borders and mid-ribs; the bayonet-fitting high domed covers with similar dentilated borders, elaborately pierced with foliage, scrolls and exotic figures, with fluted double baluster finials issuing from calices of cut-card radiating stylized acanthus leaves (the covers with later-fitted pierced sleeves)

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), pp. 228-229,cat. no. 259, repr. p. 228, details repr. p. 228.

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