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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.114.79
People
Attributed to Jeremy Johnson, British, English
Title
Puritan Spoon
Classification
Tools and Equipment
Work Type
spoon
Date
1663-1664
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Period
Commonwealth & Protectorate (1649-1660)
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228904

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
13.3 cm (5 1/4 in.)
18.6 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: struck on back of stem: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter
  • hallmark: struck in bowl: leopard's head
  • maker's mark: struck on back of stem: II [mullet below, pellet between] [probably for Jeremy Johnson, Jackson, p. 119, line 2]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Private Collector, London, sold [through Christie's, London, May 10, 1905, lot 95 (described as 1652)]. 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
1949.114.79
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
With egg-shaped bowl and flat plain slightly tapering handle

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. 47-48, cat. no. 16, repr. in b/w on p. 48.

Verification Level

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