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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1957.9.1-3
People
Thomas Ash, British (active 1695-1715)
Title
Pair of Tea Caddies in Box
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1714-1715; box: c. 1739-1756
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/51542

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver and pewter; box: silver, wood, shagreen, and velvet
Dimensions
11.4 x 7.3 x 4.8 cm (4 1/2 x 2 7/8 x 1 7/8 in.)
375 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: on bodies, covers, bases and handle plate, struck

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mrs. John Alden Carpenter, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1957

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. John Alden Carpenter in memory of her husband, John Alden Carpenter
Accession Year
1957
Object Number
1957.9.1-3
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Rectangular with canted corners and molded borders, with octagonal domed caps with baluster finials, the bases sliding open to reveal removable pewter liners, the sides engraved with elaborate foliate scroll cartouches headed by shells, with female masks below and flanked by winged female busts, enclosing a coat of arms, each engraved under the bases M-T and Pr 12=3.

The box of rectangular form, covered in black-stained shagreen and raised on four silver paw feet, the front fitted with a shaped silver key plate and hasp, the top with a shaped silver plate engraved with a crest, with swing handle, the interior lined with green velvet with silver gadrooning.

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), pp. 106-108, cat. no. 73, repr. p. 107, details repr. pp. 106-107.

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2340 Cabinet Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 09/24/2019

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project

Verification Level

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