1949.114.119: Covered Jug

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1949.114.119

People

Unidentified Artist

Title

Covered Jug

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

1723-1724

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Ireland, Dublin

Culture

Irish

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/228671

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

26.7 x 20.3 x 12.1 cm (10 1/2 x 8 x 4 3/4 in.)
1161 g

Inscriptions and Marks

• hallmark: under rim, struck: crowned harp, date letter
• hallmark: interior of cover, struck: crowned harp
• inscription: on base, engraved, scratch weight: 40 = 12 = 0
• coat of arms: on side, engraved: the arms appear to be "argent a canton sable" [unidentified]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Archibald A. Hutchinson, Esq.

Accession Year

1949

Object Number

1949.114.119

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Of baluster form on spreading circular foot, applied at the shoulder with a moulded rib; the cast scroll handle surmounted by a stylized leaf, and short spout with baluster drop; the hinged domed cover with baluster finial, the side engraved with a coat of arms, helm and crest within a circular foliate scroll cartouche.

Publication History

• S.J. Phillips (advertisement) , The Burlington Magazine, Vol. LII, May 1928
• 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. 123, cat. no. 97, repr. p. 123. details repr. p. 123.

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