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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.114.100
People
? Nicholas Wollaston, British (first mention 1646)
Title
Two-handled Cup
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1654-1655
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221190

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
7 x 14.9 x 11 cm (2 3/4 x 5 7/8 x 4 5/16 in.)
204.6 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: on rim: Lion passant, leopard's head, date letter
  • hallmark: struck on foot: lion passant
  • maker's mark: struck on rim: NW [cinquefoil below in ruled shaped punch] [Jackson, p. 120, line 10]
  • inscription: on bowl, within granulated circles, pricked: C [over] SH

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Anonymous Sale, Christie's, London, January 23, 1929, lot 8]; to Eben F. Comyns. Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Archibald A. Hutchinson, Esq. in memory of his late niece, Florence Ellsworth Wilson
Accession Year
1949
Object Number
1949.114.100
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Of circular straight-sided form on a plain flaring foot, chased with matted circles within plain borders with punched sprays between and below a punched border, with two cast foliate scroll handles; the interior punched with a starburst pattern; pounced C over SH within sinuous scrolls in one of the granulated circles; with later (probably nineteenth century) gilding.

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), p. 41, cat. no. 10, repr. in b/w.

Verification Level

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