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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.114.59
People
John Rand, British (active 1705 - 1706)
Title
Tray
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1712-1713
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Period
Queen Anne (1702-1714)
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228676

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
4.4 × 46.7 × 36.2 cm (1 3/4 × 18 3/8 × 14 1/4 in.)
2453 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: on field, struck: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter
  • maker's mark: on field, struck: Ra [pellet above a] [John Rand, Grimwade, no. 2247]
  • coat of arms: in center, engraved over traces of earlier coat-of-arms: Rasheligh impaling Clayton, for John Rashleigh of Menabilly, Cornwall and Mary, daughter of Sir William Clayton, Bt.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jonathan and Mary (née Clayton) Rashleigh, Menabilly, Cornwall, before 1764. Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, bequest; to the 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
1949.114.59
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Of rectangular form with canted corners and plain raised sides, on four shaped bracket feet attached to the rim with two circular rivets at each corner; the center engraved with a coat of arms and helm within a circular foliate scroll cartouche.

Publication History

  • K. C. Buhler, French, English and American Silver: A Loan Exhibition in Honor of Russell A. Plimpton, exh. cat., Minneapolis Society of the Arts (Minneapolis, MN, 1956), no. 127
  • 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. 101-102, cat. no. 68, repr. p. 102, details repr. pp. 101-102.

Exhibition History

  • French, English and American Silver: A Loan Exhibition in Honor of Russell A. Plimpton, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 06/09/1956 - 07/15/1956

Verification Level

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