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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.114.89.1-6
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Set of Six Spoons with Maidenhead Terminal
Classification
Tools and Equipment
Work Type
spoon
Date
1630- 1640
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, Exeter
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228905

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver and silver gilt
Dimensions
1.91 x 16.51 x 4.76 cm (3/4 x 6 1/2 x 1 7/8 in.)
40.5 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: struck on bowls: crowned X
  • maker's mark: bakcs of stems, struck thrice: A [?] [Catherine Wheel or flower head] [Exeter town mark]
  • monogram: pricked on the backs of the bowls: NTP

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
R. E. Brandt, sold [through Christie's, London, March 16, 1905, lot 72]. [Christie's, July 5, 1927, lot 133]. Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, 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
1949.114.89.1-6
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
With egg-shaped bowls, tapering hexagonal stems and gilt maidenhead terminals soldered to the stems with a lap-joint, the backs of the bowls pricked with the monogram NTP

Publication History

  • J. Starkie Gardner, ed., Exhibition of a Collection of Silvermiths' Work of European Origin, exh. cat., Burlington Fine Arts Club (London, 1901), p. 46, illus. plate 31
  • 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. 28-29, cat. no. 4, repr. in b/w on p. 29

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of a Collection of Silversmiths' Work of European Origin, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 01/01/1901 - 01/01/1901

Verification Level

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