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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.114.17.A-B
People
David Willaume I, British (Metz 1658 - c. 1741 Bedfordshire)
Title
Hot Milk Jug
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1714-1715
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228914

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
13 x 14 x 7.6 cm (5 1/8 x 5 1/2 x 3 in.)
282 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: struck under base: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter
  • hallmark: cover flange: traces of an unidentified mark
  • maker's mark: struck under base: [mark of David Willaume I, Grimwade, no. 3193]
  • maker's mark: cover flange: traces of maker's mark [mark of David Willaume I, Grimwade, no. 3193]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, bequest; to the 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
1949.114.17.A-B
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Of plain ovoid form raised on three splayed hoof feet headed by applied tongues, with wooden scroll handle and plain short spout; the domed removable cover with integral spout cap, with baluster finial.

Publication History

  • Wilfred Joseph Cripps, Old English Plate, Ecclesiastical, Decorative and Domestic: its makers and marks, J. Murray (London, 1901), 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. 106, cat. no. 72, repr. p. 106, details repr. p. 106.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project

Verification Level

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