- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1999.306.72.1-2
- People
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Maker's mark IT in rectangle, possibly for James Trender, British, English
- Title
- Pair of Rimmonim (Torah Finials)
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- rimmonim
- Date
- 1806-1807
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/20947
- Location
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Level 2, Room 2340, European and American Art, 17th–19th century, The Silver Cabinet: Art and Ritual, 1600–1850
View this object's location on our interactive map - Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Silver, parcel-gilt
- Dimensions
- 21.9 x 8.3 x 8.3 cm (8 5/8 x 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.)
383 g - Inscriptions and Marks
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- hallmark: on bases, 2 sets of branches and calices of leaves and each bell, struck: Lion passant, leopard's head, duty mark, date letter and maker's mark; lion passant, duty mark and date letter on branches; lion passant on calices of leaves and each bell
- Provenance
- Mrs A. Summers, London, sold [through Sotheby's London, 1971, lot 54]. David Berg, New York, bequest; to the Fogg Museum, 1999.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of David Berg
- Accession Year
- 1999
- Object Number
- 1999.306.72.1-2
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- On cylindrical stems applied with gilt borders roulette-decorated with trailing flowers, rising to flat knops applied with radiating calices and pineapples issuing from leaves, each with two six-branch canopies hung with bells and surmounted by pineapple finials
- Publication History
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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. 175-176, cat. no. 170, repr. p. 170, details repr. p. 170.
- Exhibition History
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32Q: 2340 Cabinet Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 09/24/2019; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/25/2019 - 12/31/2024
- Subjects and Contexts
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Google Art Project
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