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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.114.90.A-B
People
Edward Cornock, British (free 1707 - active till 1731)
Title
Tobacco Box and Lid
Classification
Boxes
Work Type
box
Date
1712-1713
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Period
Queen Anne (1702-1714)
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/51476

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
2.2 × 9.5 × 7.6 cm (7/8 × 3 3/4 × 3 in.)
110 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: struck, on side: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter
  • hallmark: struck, interior of cover: lion's head erased
  • maker's mark: struck, on side: CO [in circle] [maker's mark of Edward Cornock, Grimwade, no. 390a]
  • maker's mark: struck, interior of cover: CO [in circle] [maker's mark of Edward Cornock, Grimwade, no. 390a]
  • coat of arms: top of cover, engraved: arms of Streatfeild, Chiddingstone, descended from Robert Streatfeild of Chiddingstone, born in 1515; likely added at a later date

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, 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
1949.114.90.A-B
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Of oval form with bulging base, the removable cover engraved with a circular coat of arms and crest within elaborate foliate scroll mantling enclosing baskets of fruit, cornucopiæ, and lambrequins.

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. 100, cat. no. 66, repr. p. 100, details repr. p. 100.

Verification Level

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