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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1966.51.1.A-B
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Communion Cup and Cover
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Communion Cup with Paten Cover
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1576-1577
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/190430

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
19 x 7.9 cm (7 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.)
204.4 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: struck on bowl and top of cover: lion passant
  • hallmark: struck on bowl and top of cover: leopard's head
  • hallmark: struck on bowl and top of cover: t [date letter]
  • maker's mark: struck on bowl and top of cover: M [in shield] [Jackson, p. 92, line 11]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edwin Hale Abbot Jr., Cambridge, MA, bequest; to Fogg Museum, 1966.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Edwin H. Abbot
Accession Year
1966
Object Number
1966.51.1.A-B
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The cup with straight-sided tapering bowl on domed spreading circular foot applied with reeded bands, rising to a knopped stem, engraved with a horizontal band of arabesques within strapwork with foliate sprays at intervals; the domed cover with applied reeded rim, engraved with a band of arabesques, with a flat spool-form foot engraved 1576.

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. 26-27, cat. no. 2, repr. in b/w on p. 27.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project

Verification Level

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