1999.306.61: Mote Spoon
Tools and Equipment
This object does not yet have a description.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1999.306.61
- People
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Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Mote Spoon
- Classification
- Tools and Equipment
- Work Type
- spoon
- Date
- c. 1740
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom
- Period
- George II (1727-1760)
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/187477
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Technique
- Pierced
- Dimensions
-
15.2 cm (6 in.)
9.5 g - Inscriptions and Marks
-
- hallmark: on stem, struck: [illeg. letter] R [unidentified maker's mark]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- David Berg, New York, bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1999.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of David Berg
- Accession Year
- 1999
- Object Number
- 1999.306.61
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- Pierced rat-tail bowl and pointed stem.
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. 145, cat. no. 124, repr. p. 145.
Verification Level
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