Harvard Art Museums > 1949.114.3: Sugar Box or Tea Caddy Vessels Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Sugar Box or Tea Caddy (Harry Beathune) , 1949.114.3,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 20, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/228888. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 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 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 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
