- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1966.51.45
- People
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Matthew Lofthouse, British (born 1705)
- Title
- Two-handled Cup
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 1710-1711
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/228374
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
- 9.5 x 17.8 x 11.4 cm (3 3/4 x 7 x 4 1/2 in.)
unspecified: 204 g - Inscriptions and Marks
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- hallmark: struck; on body: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter and with maker's mark
- Provenance
- Edwin Hale Abbot Jr., Cambridge, MA, Bequest to Fogg Museum, 1966.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Edwin H. Abbot
- Accession Year
- 1966
- Object Number
- 1966.51.45
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Circular, with two reeded scroll handles, chase with spiral fluting under a rope-twist band, the front with a vacant fish-scale and scroll cartouche
- Publication History
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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. 228, cat. no. 258, repr. p. 228, details repr. p. 228.
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