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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.114.94.A-B
People
John Leach, British (1675 - 1710)
Title
Toilet bowl and cover
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Bowl and Cover, probably from a toilet service
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1698-1699
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Period
William and Mary (1688-1702)
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229014

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
10.8 x 17.5 x 13.3 cm (4 1/4 x 6 7/8 x 5 1/4 in.)
409 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: struck in rim: Britannia, lion's head [erased], date letter
  • hallmark: struck on interior of cover: Britannia, lion's head [erased], date letter
  • maker's mark: struck in rim: Le [in a shaped cartoche] [mark of John Leach, Grimwade, no. 1916]
  • maker's mark: struck on interior of cover: Le [in a shaped cartoche] [mark of John Leach, Grimwade, no. 1916]
  • coat of arms: engraved on side: crest of three wheat stalks behind a gate [probably 19th century]
  • coat of arms: engraved on cover: crest of three wheat stalks behind a gate [probably 19th century]

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
1949.114.94.A-B
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Circular on domed spreading foot chased with bands of gadrooning, with two cast scroll handles; the low domed cover applied with a cast gadrooned rim enclosing a similar broader chased band; with acorn finial rising from a chased calyx of gadrooning; the side and the cover engraved, probably in the nineteenth century, with a crest of a gate.

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. 86, cat. no. 50, repr. p. 86, details repr. p. 86

Verification Level

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