side showing the coat-of-arms Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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side showing the coat-of-arms Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1951.30
People
Sebastian Crespell, British
James Crespell, British
Title
Two-handled cup
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1764-1765
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Period
George III (1760-1820)
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228933

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Metal
Dimensions
18.4 × 24.8 × 12.1 cm (7 1/4 × 9 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.)
874 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: under base, struck: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter
  • maker's mark: under base, struck: SC / [star] / IC [mark of Sebastian & James Crespell, Grimwade, no. 2497]
  • coat of arms: on side, engraved: arms of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
  • coat of arms: on side, engraved: arms of Harvard University
  • inscription: on side, around the Harvard Univeristy arms: HARVARD CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY 1865 [enclosing] HARV. 1636 COLL. / PRESIDENT 1916-1919
  • inscription: on side, engraved: MDCCLXII / Joh. Sudbury nuper Dec. Dun / Baptistæ Noel Turner / A. B. Coll. Eman. / Άιεν Άρισεύιν
  • inscription: on side, engraved: MDCCCCXIIII / Francis Randall Appleton / A. B. Coll : Harv. / on his Seventieth Birthday / August 5th. 1924
  • inscription: under base, engraved: Harvard Club of New York City, December 17th 1924

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of Mrs. Francis R. Appleton in memory of her husband, Francis R. Appleton, 1951.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Francis R. Appleton in memory of her husband, Francis R. Appleton
Accession Year
1951
Object Number
1951.30
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The pear-shaped body with two leaf-capped scroll handles, on domed spreading gadrooned foot; one side engraved with a contemporary coat-of-arms within a rococo asymmetrical foliate scroll cartouche and below it later engraved with the arms of Harvard University enclosed by the inscription.

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. 156-157, cat. no. 138, repr. p. 156, details repr. p. 156.

Verification Level

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