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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.87.2
People
Daniel Denney, British, English
Title
Teapot Stand (part of set)
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
stand
Date
1789-1790
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Period
George III (1760-1820)
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229137

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
stand dimensions: 2.2 × 18.1 × 13.3 cm (7/8 × 7 1/8 × 5 1/4 in.)
174 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: underside, struck: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter, duty mark [George III, facing right]
  • maker's mark: DD [Daniel Denney, Grimwade, no. 456]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
C. R. Simpkins, Cambridge, MA, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1933.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of C. R. Simpkins, "A Tribute to the Class of 1892."
Accession Year
1933
Object Number
1933.87.2
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The teapot fluted straight-sided oval, with wooden loop handle and fluted straight tapering spout; the domed cover with urn-form finial, decorated with panels of bright-cut flowers and anthemion between stiff-leaf and wrigglework bands; the stand with conforming decoration, raised on four splayed feet.

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), pp. 170-171, cat. no. 161, repr. p. 170, details repr. p. 170.

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