1949.114.78.1-6: Six Spoons

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1949.114.78.1-6

People

Attributed to John Smith, British (c. 1652 - 1742)

Title

Six Spoons

Classification

Tools and Equipment

Work Type

spoon

Date

1677-1678

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London

Period

Charles II (1660-1685)

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/54092

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

20.3 x 4.7 cm (8 x 1 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• hallmark: on stems, struck: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter
• maker's mark: on stems, struck: IS [crowned in shield-shaped punch] [mark attributed to John Smith; Kent, p. 34, no. 39]
• inscription: backs of handle joins, pricked: EEW
• inscription: terminals of five spoons, engraved: G / EM
• inscription: terminal of one spoon, engraved: MV

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

1949.114.78.1-6

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Trifid-ended stems and rat-tail bowls, five terminals engraved G over EM and one MV all the backs of the handle joins pricked with later initials EEW.

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. 192, cat. no. 188, repr. p. 192, details repr. p. 192.

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