1966.51.22: Two-handled Cup
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1966.51.22
- People
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John Duck, British
- Title
- Two-handled Cup
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 1683-1684
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/227964
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
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7.9 x 16.2 x 9.8 cm (3 1/8 x 6 3/8 x 3 7/8 in.)
173 g - Inscriptions and Marks
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- hallmark: struck on body flange: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter
- maker's mark: struck on body flange: a waterfowl in a dotted circle [probably for John Duck, Jackson, p. 135]
- inscription: pricked on base: WG / 1683
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
- 1966.51.22
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Circular with slightly everted rim, the sides flat chased with exotic birds amid foliage, with two cast scroll handles.
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. 73-74, cat. no 36, details repr. p. 73, repr. in b/w on p. 74.
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