1966.51.2: Basin

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1966.51.2

People

Unidentified Artist

Title

Basin

Other Titles

Alternate Title: BOWL LONDON 1640-41?1619-20?

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

1640-1641

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/228299

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

11.11 x 39.37 cm (4 3/8 x 15 1/2 in.)
1194 g

Inscriptions and Marks

• hallmark: Struck on rim: lion passant, trace of leopards head, date letter and with traces of 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

1966.51.2

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Of plain circular raised form, the sloping sides with applied plain moulded rim, the center late flat chased with a Chinaman by ruins with a banner and a ho-ho bird above, within a stylized strapwork circular cartouche, the interior sides flat chased with similar borders and with ho-ho birds amid exotic foliage

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. 222, cat. no. 246, repr. p. 222, details repr. p. 222.

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