1940.78: Cream Jug
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1940.78
- People
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Hester Bateman, British (1708 - 1794)
- Title
- Cream Jug
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Creamer
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 1779-1780
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
- Period
- George III (1760-1820)
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/230593
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
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12.1 × 10.8 × 6.3 cm (4 3/4 × 4 1/4 × 2 1/2 in.)
79 g - Inscriptions and Marks
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- hallmark: rim, struck: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter
- maker's mark: rim, struck: HB [Hester Bateman; Grimwade, no. 961]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Anonymous gift, 1940
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift
- Accession Year
- 1940
- Object Number
- 1940.78
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Baluster, on spreading foot with rope-twist band, punched at the rim and with multi-scroll handle.
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. 210-211, cat. no. 228, repr. p. 211, details repr. p. 210.
Verification Level
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