Grape Scissors | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1949.114.61
People: William Fearn, British (1769 - )
William Eley, British (born 1777)
Title: Grape Scissors
Classification: Tools and Equipment
Work Type: scissors
Date: 1815-1816
Places: Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Period: George III (1760-1820)
Culture: British
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/228677

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver, gilt

Dimensions

17.46 x 5.4 cm (6 7/8 x 2 1/8 in.)
90 g

Inscriptions and Marks

hallmark: arm, struck: lion passant, duty mark [George III, facing right]
hallmark: arm, struck: date letter
maker's mark: arm, struck: WE / WF [in square punch] [William Eley and William Fearn, Grimwade, no. 3112]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: 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: 1949.114.61
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Scissor-form with fiddle, thread and shell pattern arms.

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. 180, cat. no. 174, repr. p. 180, details repr. p. 180.

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1949.114.61: Grape Scissors