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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.114.10.A-B
People
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
25.4 × 20.3 × 11.4 cm (10 × 8 × 4 1/2 in.)
918 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • 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
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
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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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