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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.114.123.1-2
People
Fuller White, British (free 1744)
Title
Pair of Sauceboats
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Pair of Gravy Boats
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1746-1747
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Period
George II (1727-1760)
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/47531

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
11.11 x 17.15 cm (4 3/8 x 6 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: Struck underneath: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter, and with maker's mark

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
1949.114.123.1-2
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Of oval lipped form each raised on three hoof feet headed by scrolls and terminating in scalloped pads, with wavy scalloped rims, each wtih cast multi-scroll handle headed by a palmette

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. 204, cat. no. 215, repr. p. 204.

Verification Level

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