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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
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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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