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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.114.130
People
William Stroud
Title
Meat Dish
Other Titles
Former Title: Platter (oval)
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1806 - 1807
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Period
George III (1760-1820)
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228988

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
3.8 x 52.1 x 38.42 cm (1 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 15 1/8 in.)
2604 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • maker's mark: reverse, struck: WS [William Stroud; Grimwade, no. 3321]
  • hallmark: reverse, struck: lion passant, leopard's head, duty mark, date letter
  • coat of arms: in border, engraved: coat-of-arms featuring "azure a chevron ermine between three mullets" [possibly Brewster of Northamptonshire]
  • inscription: in border, engraved: crest of a leopard's head [possibly Brewster of Northamptonshire]

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
1949.114.130
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Shaped oval with gadrooned rims, the borders engraved with a crest and, on the other side, with a coat of arms.

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. 218, repr. in b/w as Fig. 243.

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