1949.114.5.1-2: Pair of Tea Caddies

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1949.114.5.1-2

People

Matthew Cooper I, British (free 1702 - insolvent 1731)

Title

Pair of Tea Caddies

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

1715-1716

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London

Period

George I (1714-1727)

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/47832

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

14.6 x 8.6 x 5.7 cm (5 3/4 x 3 3/8 x 2 1/4 in.)
unspecified: 409 g

Inscriptions and Marks

• hallmark: on flanges, bases and interior of covers, struck: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter and maker's mark; maker's mark and lion's head erased on bases; maker's mark on interior of covers

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

1949.114.5.1-2

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Of rectangular stepped baluster form with canted corners, on cast spreading bases of conforming outline; the removable baluster domed covers and vase form finials also of conforming outline; the sides engraved with a crest, the bases engraved RC over RP

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. 110, cat. no. 77, repr. p. 110, details repr. p. 110.

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