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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.114.18
People
Peter Harache I
Title
Inkstand
Classification
Tools and Equipment
Work Type
inkstand
Date
1702-1703
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229288

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
6.3 x 18.7 x 13 cm (2 1/2 x 7 3/8 x 5 1/8 in.)
1180 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: struck on side: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter
  • coat of arms: on top, engraved: The arms are those of Stanhope, for Philip, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield (1634-1713). A wine cistern at Penshurst has the same coat of arms (Hartop 2003)
  • hallmark: struck on interior of each cover: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter
  • hallmark: struck on removable pounce pot: lion's head erased
  • maker's mark: struck on side: [annulet] / [two crosses/ HA [in shaped punch] [ Pierre Harache ? I, Grimwade, no. 936]
  • maker's mark: struck on interior of each cover: [annulet] / [two crosses/ HA [in shaped punch] [ Pierre Harache ? I, Grimwade, no. 936]
  • maker's mark: struck on pounce pot: [annulet] / [two crosses/ HA [in shaped punch] [ Pierre Harache ? I, Grimwade, no. 936]
  • coat of arms: engraved on one cover: an earl's achievement, for Philip, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield
  • inscription: engraved on one cover: a crest and earl's coronet, Stanhope, for Philip, 2nd earl of Chesterfield
  • inscription: engraved, side of pounce pot: earl;s achievementa nd crest with the arms of Stanhope, for Philip, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield
  • inscription: on base, engraved, scratch weight: 45:1

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield (1634-1713). 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
1949.114.18
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Rectangular on four bun feet, with applied reeded borders, the top formed of two flaps opening lengthwise to reveal, on one side, a dished pen compartment, and, on the other, three square compartments, one fitted with a removable pounce pot with similar borders, the top pierced with continuous holes and with baluster finial, one cover engraved with an earl's achievement, the other with a crest and earl's coronet, the side of the pounce pot also engraved with the same crest and coronet, the base with scratch weight 45:1.

Publication History

  • K. C. Buhler, French, English and American Silver: A Loan Exhibition in Honor of Russell A. Plimpton, exh. cat., Minneapolis Society of the Arts (Minneapolis, MN, 1956), no. 90
  • 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. 88-91, cat. no. 53, repr. p. 89, details repr. pp. 88-89.

Exhibition History

  • French, English and American Silver: A Loan Exhibition in Honor of Russell A. Plimpton, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 06/09/1956 - 07/15/1956

Verification Level

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