1966.51.56.1-2: Pair of Casters
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1966.51.56.1-2
- People
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Samuel Wood, British (1704 - 1794)
- Title
- Pair of Casters
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 1753-1754
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/47528
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
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17.2 x 6.4 x 6.4 cm (6 3/4 x 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.)
unspecified: 434 g - Inscriptions and Marks
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- hallmark: under base and cover flanges, struck: Lion passant, leopard's head, date letter and maker's mark; lion passant and maker's mark on cover flanges
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Edwin Hale Abbot Jr., Cambridge, MA, Bequest to Fogg Museum, 1966.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Edwin H. Abbot
- Accession Year
- 1966
- Object Number
- 1966.51.56.1-2
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Baluster on spreading bases, applied with rope-twist bands, the high domed cover pieced with spiral bands of foliate scrolls and surmounted by tear-drop finials
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. 205, cat. no. 217, repr. p. 205, details repr. p. 205.
Verification Level
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