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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.114.26
People
George Greenhill Jones, British (active 1719 -1748)
Title
Kitchen Caster
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1719-1720
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Period
George I (1714-1727)
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228941

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Metal
Dimensions
7.6 × 6.9 × 5.1 cm (3 × 2 11/16 × 2 in.)
80 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: under base, struck: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter
  • maker's mark: under base, struck: [maker's mark for George Greenhill Jones] [Grimwade, no. 1563]

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
1949.114.26
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Of cylindrical form on moulded spreading foot, with scroll side handle, the removable domed cover with moulded border, pierced with radiating scrolls.

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. 119, cat. no. 91, repr. p. 119.

Verification Level

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