1999.306.22: Candle Snuffers

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

Permissions

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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.

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