Incorrect Username, Email, or Password
This object does not yet have a description.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1966.51.46
People
John Bodington, British, English (free 1688 - 1727)
Title
Mug
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1713-1714
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228415

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
11.1 × 14 × 9.2 cm (4 3/8 × 5 1/2 × 3 5/8 in.)
300 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: struck on rim, by handle: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter
  • maker's mark: struck on rim, by handle: [mark of John Bodington, Grimwade, no. 201]
  • coat of arms: engraved, on front: unidentified arms, blazon as sable an elephant on a chief azure three mullets, witha crescent for difference" and the crest is a rooster.
  • inscription: base, engraved, scratch weight: 10-1

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
1966.51.46
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Descriptions

Description
Tapering cylindrical on spreading bolection foot, applied with a mid-rib, the tubular scroll handle with tab-form thumbpiece, the front engraved with a coat of arms and crest within foliate scroll mantling, with gilt interior.

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. 103, cat. no. 69, repr. p. 103, details repr. p. 103.

Verification Level

This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu