1940.73: Basket
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1940.73
- People
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Herbert, Samuel, and Co., British (1750 - )
- Title
- Basket
- Other Titles
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Title: Cake Dish
Alternate Title: CAKE DISH, PIERCED SILVER, WITH HANDLE, GEORGE II - Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 1764 - 1765
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
- Period
- George III (1760-1820)
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/230515
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
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26.7 × 33.3 × 27.9 cm (10 1/2 × 13 1/8 × 11 in.)
820 g - Inscriptions and Marks
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- hallmark: outside of body, struck: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter
- maker's mark: outside of body, struck: mark of Samuel Herbert & Co. [Grimwade, no. 2545]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Anonymous gift, 1940
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift
- Accession Year
- 1940
- Object Number
- 1940.73
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Oval basket with flaring rim pierced with band of repeating quatrefoils and rope-twist edge; sixteen pierced panels with alternating crosses with scrolls and flowers divided by repousse beaded curving motifs; on raised, oval pierced foot rim with rope-twist edges; curved plain swing handle with banded edge, flaring in centre.
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. 208-209, cat. no. 223, repr. p. 208, details repr. p. 208.
Verification Level
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