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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.114.3
People
Harry Beathune, Scottish
Title
Sugar Box or Tea Caddy
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1718-1719
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, Scotland, Edinburgh
Culture
British, Scottish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228888

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver, gilt
Technique
Cast
Dimensions
12.4 × 11.1 × 8.5 cm (4 7/8 × 4 3/8 × 3 3/8 in.)
509 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: under base, struck: castle, assay master's mark [EP in shaped stamp] (Edward Penman), date letter
  • maker's mark: struck under base: HB [in shaped stamp] [Harry Beathune, Jackson, p. 545, line 6]
  • coat of arms: on side, engraved : crest with lion's head [probably 19th century]

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
1949.114.3
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Of cast oblong form with canted corners and shaped outline, on cast stepped spreading foot of conforming outline; the stepped hinged domed cover with octagonal ribbed double-baluster finial, the front engraved, probably in the nineteenth century, with crest.

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. 55
  • 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. 117, cat. no. 88, repr. p.117.

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
  • Resetting the Table: Food and Our Changing Tastes, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11/16/2019 - 12/31/2024

Verification Level

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