1966.51.9: Small Two-Handled Cup

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1966.51.9

People

Maker's mark HN, bird with olive branch below, British, English (17th century)

Title

Small Two-Handled Cup

Other Titles

Title: Toy Two-handled Cup
Alternate Title: TOY? GOURD-SHAPED TWO-HANDLDED CUP LONDON 1663-4

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

1663-1664

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London

Period

Charles II (1660-1685)

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/228302

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

5.4 × 9.8 × 6 cm (2 1/8 × 3 7/8 × 2 3/8 in.)
69 g

Inscriptions and Marks

• hallmark: under rim, struck: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter
• maker's mark: under rim, struck: HN [bird with olive branch below] [Jackson, p. 122, line 9]
• inscription: under rim, pricked: NH

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Edwin Hale Abbot Jr., Cambridge, MA, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1966.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Edwin H. Abbot

Accession Year

1966

Object Number

1966.51.9

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Bulbous circular, with two wire scroll handles, chased with a broad band of stylized flowers with granulated flutes between, all below a punched band, the base punched with a star pattern, pricked under the rim with the initials NH amid scrolls

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. 190-191, cat. no. 184, repr. p. 190, details repr. p. 184.

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