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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1966.51.26
People
Maker's mark WM, plume and two pellets above
Title
Two-handled Cup
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1665-1670
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/227965

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Technique
Embossed
Dimensions
12.4 x 18.4 x 15.2 cm (4 7/8 x 7 1/4 x 6 in.)
341 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • maker's mark: under base, struck four times (one clear, the other three deliberately misstruck: Maker's mark struck four times (one strike clear, others deliberately misstruck)WM [plume and two pellets above, pellet in shield-shaped punch] [Jackson, p. 142, line 8]
  • inscription: pricked under rim on one side: DS / DG / [traces of scored-out date, 1689]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Private Collector, London, sold [through Christie's, London, June 6, 1934, lot 130]. Edwin H. Abbot, Cambridge, MA, bequest; to Fogg Museum of Art, 1966.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Edwin H. Abbot
Accession Year
1966
Object Number
1966.51.26
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Of bulbous circular form, repousse and chased with a broad band of flowerheads and wrigglework with a running unicorn on one side and a running lion on the other, with two cast ribbed scroll handles headed by female masks, pricked under the rim on one side DS over DG and with traces of a scored-out date (1689) below.

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. 58, cat. no. 23, two sides and details repr. in b/w.

Verification Level

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