1949.114.62: Sugar Nips
Tools and Equipment
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1949.114.62
- People
-
Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Sugar Nips
- Other Titles
- Title: Sugar Scissors
- Classification
- Tools and Equipment
- Work Type
- tongs
- Date
- c. 1760
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom
- Period
- George III (1760-1820)
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/229041
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
-
12.4 cm (4 7/8 in.)
31 g - Inscriptions and Marks
-
- hallmark: handle, struck: lion passant
- maker's mark: handle, struck: AO [in rectangular punch; unidentified; possibly Alexander Osborne (not in Grimwade or Jackson)]
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
- 1949.114.62
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- Scissor-form with scroll arms and shell nippers.
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. 155, cat. no. 136, repr. p. 155, detail repr. p. 155.
Exhibition History
- From the Andes to the Caribbean: American Art from the Spanish Empire, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/03/2023 - 07/30/2023
- Measuring Difference, The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, 10/17/2024 - 08/30/2025
Verification Level
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