- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1989.35
- People
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William Townsend, Irish
- Title
- Caster
- Other Titles
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Title: Kitchen Caster
Alternate Title: George I Kitchen Castor - Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- c. 1720
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Ireland, Dublin
- Culture
- Irish
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/219267
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
- 6.67 x 5.72 x 3.81 cm (2 5/8 x 2 1/4 x 1 1/2 in.)
47 g - Inscriptions and Marks
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- hallmark: on side, struck: Hibernia, crowned harp
- maker's mark: on side, struck: [mark of William Townsend] [Bennett, no. 575]
- coat of arms: on side, engraved: an arm in armor embowed [unidentified]
- Provenance
- Mary Henle, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1989
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mary Henle
- Accession Year
- 1989
- Object Number
- 1989.35
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Slightly tapering cylindrical, on flat base with plain flat scroll handle, the domed removable cover pierced with plain holes (with later fitted liner), the side engraved with a crest.
- 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), p. 149, cat. no. 128, repr. p. 149, details repr. p. 149.
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