- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2020.199
- People
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Joseph Richardson Sr., American (Philadelphia 1711 - 1784 Philadelphia)
- Title
- The Hannah Emelen Logan Teapot
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- c. 1745
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/369957
- Location
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Level 2, Room 2410, South Arcade
View this object's location on our interactive map - Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Silver and wood
- Dimensions
- 14 cm (5 1/2 in.)
539 g - Inscriptions and Marks
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- maker's mark: bottom, stamped: IR [in rectangle] [mark of Joseph Richardson, Sr.]
- maker's mark: bottom, stamped: IR [in rectangle] [mark of Joseph Richardson, Sr.]
- monogram: side, engraved: HEL
- inscription: under base, scratchweight: 18-12
- Provenance
- Hannah Emlen Logan (1722-1777), North Philadelphia. Walter Morrison Jeffords (1882-1960), Glen Riddle, Pennsylvania, by descent; to Walter Morrison Jeffords (1915-1990) and Kathleen McLaughlin (d. 2003), sold [through Sotheby's, New York, October 29, 2004, lot 650]. Daniel and Susan Pollack, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2020
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Pollack Collection, gift of Daniel A. Pollack AB ’60 and Susan F. Pollack AB ’64
- Accession Year
- 2020
- Object Number
- 2020.199
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Apple-shaped pot with a swan spout and baluster finial. Wooden handle.
- Publication History
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Martha Gandy Fales, Joseph Richardson and Family: Philadelphia Silversmiths, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania and Wesleyan University Press (Middletown, CT, 1974), p. 85, repr. as fig. 40
The Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords: Early American Silver, auct. cat., Sotheby's, New York (New York, October 28, 2004), pp. 90-93, lot. no 650, repr.
Jeanne Sloane, Early American Silver in the collection of Daniel A. Pollack, Privately Published (Boston [?], 2019), cat. no. 11, repr.
"Harvard Art Museums Receive Important Gift of American Silver", Artfixdaily Artwire ([e-journal], March 22, 2022), https://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/6573-harvard-art-museums-receive-important-gift-of-american-silver, accessed March 24, 2022
- Exhibition History
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32Q: 2410 South Arcade, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/25/2022 - 01/01/2050
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