1949.114.79: Puritan Spoon

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

Permissions

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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.

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