1949.114.33.A-B: Stand and Lamp

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1949.114.33.A-B

People

Seth Lofthouse, British (born 1699)

Title

Stand and Lamp

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

stand

Date

1710-1711

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London

Period

Queen Anne (1702-1714)

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/228937

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

7.6 x 23.8 x 11.4 cm (3 x 9 3/8 x 4 1/2 in.)
unspecified: 345 g

Inscriptions and Marks

• hallmark: on lamp base, platform and lamp cover, struck: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter and maker's mark; maker's mark on platform and lamp cover

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York; his 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

1949.114.33.A-B

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Of circular form raised on three scroll feet with turned wood side handle and removable circular lamp with molded band cover and hinged domed cap; the circular platform and lamp cover engraved with a crest of an escallop

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), p. 98, cat. no. 63, repr. p. 98, details repr. p. 98.

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