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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.306.22
People
Joseph Bird, British, English (active 1697-1735)
Title
Candle Snuffers
Classification
Tools and Equipment
Work Type
candle snuffer
Date
1711-1712
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/187308

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
14.6 x 3.5 x 5 cm (5 3/4 x 1 3/8 x 1 15/16 in.)
unspecified: 133 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: on pad and inside box, struck: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter and maker's mark; lion's head erased and maker's mark inside box

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
David Berg, New York; his bequest to the Fogg Museum, 1999.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of David Berg
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.306.22
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The snuffers of scissor-form, plain loop handles, the box with hinged pad with steel edge; the inside engraved with scratch weight 4=18;the oval tray on four bun feet, with moulded rim and flat baluster handle with two flanking openwork scrolls, the center engraved with accolé coats-of-arms within foliate scroll mantling

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. 99-100, cat. no. 65, repr. p. 99, details repr. p. 99.

Verification Level

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