Skewer | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1949.114.83
People: Maker’s mark IR, British, English
Title: Skewer
Classification: Tools and Equipment
Work Type: skewer
Date: 1756-1757
Places: Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Period: George II (1727-1760)
Culture: British
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/229273

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

32.1 cm (12 5/8 in.)
79 g

Inscriptions and Marks

hallmark: near terminal, struck: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter
(not assigned): near terminal, struck: IR [under a crown in a square-shaped punch] [unidentified]
(not assigned): engraved: B

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: 1949.114.83
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Of plain tapering form with ring terminal, engraved, in the nineteenth century, with the initial B in Gothic script.

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. 162, cat. no. 148, repr. p. 162.

Verification Level

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1949.114.83: Skewer