1949.114.117.A-C: Teapot, Stand and Lamp

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1949.114.117.A-C

People

Jonathan Newton, British, English

Title

Teapot, Stand and Lamp

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

1712-1713

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/47530

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

22.2 x 25.4 x 11.7 cm (8 3/4 x 10 x 4 5/8 in.)
unspecified: 773 g

Inscriptions and Marks

• hallmark: under base of teapot and stand, stand support, lamp cover flange, struck: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter and maker's mark; Britannia and lion's head erased on stand support; lion's head erased on lamp cover flange

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

1949.114.117.A-C

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

The teapot of raised octagonal baluster form on plain octagonal rim foot, with part-panelled swan’s neck spout and wood loop handle; the hinged domed cover with panelled baluster finial; the stand of cast octagonal form on three multi-scroll supports terminating on square pads, with central octagonal lamp with removable cover and side wood tapering straight handle

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), pp. 100-101, cat. no. 67, repr. p. 101, details repr. p. 101.

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