Pair of Trencher Salts | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1949.114.28.3-4
People: James Rood, British (free 1710)
Title: Pair of Trencher Salts
Classification: Vessels
Work Type: vessel
Date: 1719-1720
Places: Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Period: George I (1714-1727)
Culture: British
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/142084

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

3.49 x 7.94 cm (1 3/8 x 3 1/8 in.)
unspecified: 58.9 g

Inscriptions and Marks

hallmark: under base, struck: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter and maker's mark

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York; his 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: 1949.114.28.3-4
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Of rectangular form with canted corners and curved sides, engraved under the bases C over WH and also with the initial C

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. 116, cat. no. 87, repr. p. 116.

Verification Level

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1949.114.28.3-4: Pair of Trencher Salts