Bowl | Harvard Art Museums

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Identification and Creation

Object Number: 61.1943
People: Unidentified Artist
Title: Bowl
Classification: Vessels
Work Type: vessel
Date: 1765-1766
Places: Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture: British
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/232646

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

22.5 x 27.3 x 25.4 cm (8 7/8 x 10 3/4 x 10 in.)
2103 g

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: side of bowl, engraved: The Gift of / The Board of Overseers / To Abbott Lawrence Lowell / President of Harvard / University / 1933
hallmark: Struck under base: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter and with ?defaced maker's mark

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Loan from Harvard University, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from Harvard University
Object Number: 61.1943
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Descriptions

Description: Hemispherical on square pedestal gadrooned base raised on four gadrooned circular feet, engraved under a gadrooned rim with armorials. This bowl is made out an earlier piece by cutting down an outmoded tea urn, probably shortly before its presentation in 1933, at which time the armorials and the feet were added.

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. 234, fig. 269.