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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.114.116
People
Maker's mark PM between two stars, British, English
Title
Tankard
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1688-1689
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Period
James II (1685-1688)
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221494

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
24.8 x 27.3 x 19 cm (9 3/4 x 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.)
1799 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: struck on side: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter
  • hallmark: struck on top of cover: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter
  • maker's mark: struck on side: * / PM / * [Jackson, p. 138, line 14]
  • maker's mark: struck on top of cover: * / PM / * [Jackson, p. 138, line 14]
  • maker's mark: struck on handle: * / PM / * [Jackson, p. 138, line 14]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Private Collector, London, sold [through Christie's London, December 12, 1928, lot 55]. The work was lot 55. 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.
Accession Year
1949
Object Number
1949.114.116
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Of slightly tapering cylindrical form on cast reeded foot rim, the upper rim with applied band, the tubular scroll handle with hexagonal flat terminal; the low domed hinged cover with scalloped front and cast three-part thumb-piece; the interior set at the back with a vertical line of pegs set at intervals.

Publication History

  • Wilfred Joseph Cripps, Old English Plate, Ecclesiastical, Decorative and Domestic: its makers and marks, J. Murray (London, 1901), no. 48
  • 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. 80-81, cat. no. 42, repr. p. 81, details repr. p. 80.

Verification Level

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