Add to Collection

Add this item to an existing or new collection.
Harvard Art Museums
Incorrect Username, Email, or Password
This object does not yet have a description.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.114.99.1-6
People
Isaac Ribouleau, British (1724 - )
Title
Cruet Stand, Casters and Bottles
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1727-1728
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228886

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
15.2 x 22.9 x 15.2 cm (6 x 9 x 6 in.)
unspecified: 1297.5 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: underneath stand, under bases of casters, cover flanges and bottle caps, struck: Lion passant, leopard's head, date letter and maker's mark under stand; lion passant on cover flange of smaller caster and bottle caps; lion passant and maker's mark on cover flange of larger caster

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York; his 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
1949.114.99.1-6
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
The stand form as three octagonal cast platforms set as a triangle, raised on four cast multi-scroll supports terminating in hoof feet of undulating outline, with a cast scroll side handle; the frame fitted with one large and a pair of smaller casters of octagonal form on spreading bases, with high domed covers, two pierced with panels of crosses and scrolls, one of the smaller samples engraved with conforming decoration, all with baluster finials; the two facet-cut glass club-shaped bottles with octagonal domed caps with baluster finials; each end of the frame fitted with an octagonal holder for the bottle caps; the stand, casters and bottle caps engraved with a crest.

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), pp. 129-130, cat. no. 108, repr. pp. 129-130, details repr. p. 129.

Related Works

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