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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.306.18.A-B
People
Paul De Lamerie, British (Bois-le-Duc 1688 - 1751 London)
Title
Caster
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1732-1733
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Period
George II (1727-1760)
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/187616

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
21 × 8.9 cm (8 1/4 × 3 1/2 in.)
554 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: under base, struck: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter
  • maker's mark: under base, struck: [crown] / * / P [pellet] L [mark of Paul de Lamerie, Hare, no. 4]
  • hallmark: on cover flange, struck: lion passant
  • coat of arms: side, engraved: crest featuring an arm in armor embowed holding a cross crosslet [used by several families]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Private Collection, sold [through Christie's, London, July 20, 1955, lot 150]. Sold [through Christie's, London, July 12, 1983, lot 191]. 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
1999.306.18.A-B
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Fluted baluster on domed spreading foot, with applied mid-rib, the high domed cover pierced with panels of alternating trelliswork and foliate scrolls each enclosing rocaille, with baluster finial, the side engraved, probably in the nineteenth century, with a crest.
The crest, an arm in armor embowed holding cross crosslet, is unidentified. (Hartop 2003)

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. 134, cat. no. 113, repr. p. 134.

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