- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1949.114.12.A-C
- People
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Thomas Folkingham, British (born 1707)
- Title
- Coffee Pot on Lampstand
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 1715-1716
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/47865
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
- 19.4 x 17.8 x 9.5 cm (7 5/8 x 7 x 3 3/4 in.)
unspecified: 514 g - Inscriptions and Marks
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- hallmark: under base and on cover flange, struck: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter and maker's mark; lion's head erased on cover flange
- Provenance
- Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1949.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Archibald A. Hutchinson, Esq.
- Accession Year
- 1949
- Object Number
- 1949.114.12.A-C
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Coffee Pot: Of tapering cylindrical form on cast spreading base, with wood scroll handle and tapering swan-neck spout with hinged cap; the hinged domed cover with baluster finial; the side engraved with a lozenge of arms within a circular foliate scroll cartouche, the base with scratch weight 15 18
Lampstand: Of circular form raised on three baluster feet with wood pads and with turned wood side handle; the fixed circular lamp with removable cover with molded band and hinged domed cap; with removable triangular platform.
- Publication History
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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. 103-104, cat. no. 103, repr. p. 104, details repr. p. 103.
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