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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
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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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