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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.114.96
People
John Leach, British (1675 - 1710)
Title
Monteith
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1708-1709
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229016

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
22.6 × 29.2 cm (8 7/8 × 11 1/2 in.)
1835 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: struck on body, under rim: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter
  • maker's mark: struck on collar, four times: Le [in shaped punch] [mark of John Leach, Grimwade, no. 1916]
  • maker's mark: struck on body, under rim: Le [in shaped punch] [mark of John Leach, Grimwade, no. 1916]
  • inscription: engraved, on bowl: Donum Gualteri Long Bart. 1708
  • coat of arms: engraved, on bowl: [unidentified coat-of-arms]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Private Collector, London, sold [through Christie's, London, July 7, 1909, lot 74 (as by Samuel Lee)]. Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, bequest; to 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
1949.114.96
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The raised plain hemispherical body on spreading circular cast foot; the removable scalloped rim with cast strapwork border with stylized shell cresting; engraved on one side with a coat of arms, helm and crest within foliate scroll mantling.

Publication History

  • Wilfred Joseph Cripps, Old English Plate, Ecclesiastical, Decorative and Domestic: its makers and marks, J. Murray (London, 1901), no. 57 (as by Samuel Lee)
  • Georgina E. Lee, British Silver Monteith Bowls, Manor House Press (London, 1978), no. 237
  • 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. 96-97, cat. no. 61, repr. p. 96, details repr. p. 96.

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