Pair of Sauceboats | Harvard Art Museums

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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1949.114.123.1-2: Pair of Sauceboats