1966.51.55: Two-Handled Cup
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1966.51.55
- People
-
Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Two-Handled Cup
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 1737-1738
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
- Period
- George II (1727-1760)
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/227936
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
-
11.1 x 16.5 x 10.2 cm (4 3/8 x 6 1/2 x 4 in.)
246 g - Inscriptions and Marks
-
- hallmark: under base, struck: Lion passant, leopard's head, date letter
- maker's mark: under base, struck: illegible, possibly T?
- inscription: under base, engraved: I / M + S
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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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
- 1966.51.55
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- Circular on spreading foot, with two flat reeded scroll handles, chased with spiral fluting below a rope-twist and punched band; the front with a vacant scroll and fish-scale cartouche; engraved under the base with the initials I over MS
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. 201, cat. no. 208, repr. p. 201, details repr. p. 201.
Verification Level
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