1999.306.3: Cake Basket
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1999.306.3
- People
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John Jacob, British (active 1734 - 1773 )
- Title
- Cake Basket
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- c. 1735
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
- Period
- George II (1727-1760)
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/188059
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
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8.3 x 35.9 x 27.6 cm (3 1/4 x 14 1/8 x 10 7/8 in.)
1718 g - Inscriptions and Marks
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- maker's mark: under base, struck four times: [crown] / I [pellet] I / [star] [Mark of John Jacob, Grimwade, no.1421]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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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
- 1999.306.3
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- Oval basket with sides pierced to imitate wickerwork interspersed with bell flowers above and leaf motifs below; pierced scalloped rim and pierced, raised foot; two cast, rope-twisted handles.
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. 138-139, cat. no. 118, repr. p. 139, details repr. p. 139.
Verification Level
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