1949.114.10.A-B: Chocolate Pot
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1949.114.10.A-B
- People
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William Preist, British (1739 - 1811)
William Shaw II, British, English (active 1749-1773)
- Title
- Chocolate Pot
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Chocolate Pot with separate top knob
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 1753-1754
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
- Period
- George II (1727-1760)
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/229293
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver, fruitwood
- Dimensions
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25.4 × 20.3 × 11.4 cm (10 × 8 × 4 1/2 in.)
918 g - Inscriptions and Marks
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- hallmark: on body by handle, struck: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter
- maker's mark: on body by handle, struck: W / S [pellet] W / P [mark of William Shaw II and William Priest, Grimwade, no. 3335]
- inscription: on base, engraved: A * W
- coat of arms: on side, engraved: coat-of-arms and crest [arms of Muschamp impaling an unidentified arms]
- coat of arms: on side, engraved: crest
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, gift; to 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
- 1949.114.10.A-B
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Of baluster form, on cast spreading circular foot, with wooden scroll handle and swan-neck spout cast with scrolls and headed by a palmette; the hinged dome cover with removable cap with double-baluster finial; one side engraved with a coat of arms and crest within an asymmetrical foliate scroll and rocaille cartouche, the reverse engraved with the same crest above a rocaille and foliate spray.
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. 152-153, cat no. 132, repr. p. 153, details repr. p. 152.
Verification Level
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