1966.51.44.1-2: Pair of Trencher Salts
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1966.51.44.1-2
- People
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Philip Roker I, British (1676 - )
- Title
- Pair of Trencher Salts
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 1708-1709
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/47851
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
- 4.1 x 6.7 cm (1 5/8 x 2 5/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- hallmark: under base, struck: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter and maker's mark
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Edwin Hale Abbot Jr., Cambridge, MA, Bequest to Fogg Museum, 1966.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Edwin H. Abbot
- Accession Year
- 1966
- Object Number
- 1966.51.44.1-2
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Of plain domed circular form, the sides later engraved with a crest of lion’s head issuing out of a mural crown
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. 195, cat. no. 185, repr. p. 195, details repr. p. 195.
Verification Level
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