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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1966.51.5
People
Arthur Manwaring, British, English (active 1650 - 1696)
Title
Two-handled Cup
Other Titles
Alternate Title: GOURD-SHAPED TWO-HANDLED CUP LONDON 1657-8
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1657-1658
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228355

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
7.3 x 15.9 x 10.2 cm (2 7/8 x 6 1/4 x 4 in.)
220 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: on rim, struck: Lion passant, leopard’s head, date letter
  • maker's mark: struck on rim: AM [in monogram; Andrew Manning] [Jackson, p. 121, line 4]
  • inscription: on base, engraved: AJB
  • inscription: rim: [faint traces of pricked initals / illeg.]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Viscount Rothermere, London, sold [through The Rothermere Collection Sale, Christie's, London, December 3, 1941, lot 99]. Edwin H. Abbot, 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
1966.51.5
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Bulbous circular on ropetwist foot, with two cast caryatid scroll handles, the sides chased with stylised flowers within matted scrolls under a punched band, the rim with faint traces of pricked initials, the base engraved, probably in the twentieth century, with the initials AJB

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. 45-46, cat. no. 13, repr. in b/w p. 45.

Verification Level

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