1933.67: Teapot
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1933.67
- People
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Maker’s mark SW
- Title
- Teapot
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 1773-1774
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
- Period
- George III (1760-1820)
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/230990
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver, fruitwood
- Dimensions
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15.24 x 24.13 x 10.8 cm (6 x 9 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.)
527 g - Inscriptions and Marks
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- hallmark: under base, struck: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter
- maker's mark: under base, struck: SW [possibly Samuel Wood or Samuel White; Grimwade, no. 3808]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- C. R. Simpkins, Cambridge, MA, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1933.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of C. R. Simpkins, "A Tribute to the Class of 1892."
- Accession Year
- 1933
- Object Number
- 1933.67
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Cylindrical on wavy foot,with beaded borders, oval tapering spout, ebonized wood handle and domed hinged cover with ebonized wood finial.
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), p. 209, cat. no. 225, repr. p. 209, details repr. p. 209.
Verification Level
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