1948.96.A-D: Inkstand

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1948.96.A-D

People

Paul De Lamerie, British (Bois-le-Duc 1688 - 1751 London)

Title

Inkstand

Classification

Tools and Equipment

Work Type

inkwell

Date

1731-1732

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/229276

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

16.8 x 36.2 x 24.5 cm (6 5/8 x 14 1/4 x 9 5/8 in.)
unspecified: 2225 g

Inscriptions and Marks

• hallmark: under base, under each pot, interior of ink pot, struck: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter and maker's mark; lion's head erased on interior of inke pot
  Maker's mark: See Hare, no. 3, and Grimwade, no. 1892

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1949.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Archibald Alexander Hutchinson

Accession Year

1948

Object Number

1948.96.A-D

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Of shaped oblong form raised on four cast scroll feet, applied with cast dentilated borders with acanthus at intervals, a female mask at each end and smaller masks against rocaille at each corner, with three circular depressions enclosed a border of small circles and flanked by two shaped oblong pen trays, all enclosed by flat-chased foliate strapwork and rocaille borders enclosing panels of granulation and diaperwork; fitted with two cylindrical pots, each on cast spreading dentilated bases, the sides flat-chased with shaped panels of scrolls and stylized acanthus on a granulated ground, with removable dentilated covers, one pierced with a continuous trellis pattern; the other pieced with five nib holes between flat-chased trelliswork and bellflowers; the center with a cast handbell with conforming decorations; each pen tray engraved with a coat of arms within an asymmetrical scroll cartouche and drapery mantling.

Publication History

• Philip A.S. Phillips, Paul de Lamerie, Citizen and Goldsmith of London, a Study of his Life and Work A.D. 1688-1751 (London, 1933), plate LXXII
• Victoria Kloss Ball, Architecture and Interior Design: Europe and America from the Colonial Era to Today, John Wiley & Sons (New York, NY, 1980), fig. 4.56
• Judith A. Neiswander, "Transatlantic Treasures", Country Life, Country Life (London, July 9, 1992), p. 56
• 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. 132-133, cat. no. 112, repr. p. 133, details repr. p. 132.

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