1966.51.27: Mug

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1966.51.27

People

Maker's mark R in script with pellet below, British, English

Title

Mug

Other Titles

Alternate Title: MUG WITH STRAP HANDLE LONDON 1688-9

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

1688-1689

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/219683

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

9.84 x 13.9 x 9.8 cm (3 7/8 x 5 1/2 x 3 7/8 in.)
unspecified: 261 g

Inscriptions and Marks

• hallmark: on base, punched: Maker's mark R in script, pellet below, in shield-shaped punch; lion passant; leopard's head crowned and date letter for 1688/89

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

1966.51.27

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

The bell-shaped bowl, on plain rim foot, the lower part chased with vertical tongue-and-dart with applied rib above, with reeded scroll handle

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. 225-226, cat. no. 253, repr. p. 226, details repr. 225.

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