1949.114.57: Tray
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1949.114.57
- People
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Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Tray
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 1717-1718
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
- Period
- George I (1714-1727)
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/229040
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
-
4.1 x 42.2 x 33 cm (1 5/8 x 16 5/8 x 13 in.)
1610 g - Inscriptions and Marks
-
- hallmark: on field, struck: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter
- maker's mark: on field, struck: illegible
- coat of arms: center, engraved: unidentified arms [later, circa 1790]
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
- 1949.114.57
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- Of oblong form with incurved corners and sides and plain raised rim, on four double bracket feet attached to the rim with two circular rivets at each corner; the center engraved with a circular foliate scroll cartouche enclosing a later, circa 1790, 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. 114, cat. no. 84, repr. p. 114.
Verification Level
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