side with crests Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
side with crests Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1966.51.65
People
Maker's mark IK?, British, English
Title
Two-handled Cup
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1772-1773
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228011

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
13.3 x 21.3 x 12.4 cm (5 1/4 x 8 3/8 x 4 7/8 in.)
unspecified: 391 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: on underside, struck: Lion passant, leopard's head, date letter and maker's mark

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
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
1966.51.65
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Circular with two flat reeded scroll handles, chased with a band of vertical flutes below a punched and rope-twist band. The front with a foliate cartouche enclosing two later engraved crests within a wreath

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. 234-235, cat. no. 271, repr. p. 235.

Verification Level

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