1949.114.115.1-2: Pair of Waiters

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1949.114.115.1-2

People

David Willaume I, British (Metz 1658 - c. 1741 Bedfordshire)

Title

Pair of Waiters

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

1703-1704

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London

Period

Queen Anne (1702-1714)

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/47529

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

5.7 x 15.9 cm (2 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.)
unspecified: 764 g

Inscriptions and Marks

• hallmark: on reverses and undersides of feet, struck: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter and maker's mark; lion's head erased on undersides of feet

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1949.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Archibald A. Hutchinson, Esq.

Accession Year

1949

Object Number

1949.114.115.1-2

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Circular, with applied cast gadrooned rims, each on a dome circular cast foot decorated with a band of gadrooning, rising to a gadrooned knop, the reverses applied with a cut-card calyx of stylized radiating foliage, the centers engraved with a lozenge of arms within a circular foliate scroll cartouche

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. 92, cat. no. 55, repr. p. 92, details repr. p. 92.

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