1949.114.31.1-2: Pair of Shell Dishes
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1949.114.31.1-2
- People
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Robert Hill
- Title
- Pair of Shell Dishes
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 1719-1720
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
- Period
- George I (1714-1727)
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/54161
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
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3.8 x 15.2 x 14.3 cm (1 1/2 x 6 x 5 5/8 in.)
unspecified: 259 g - Inscriptions and Marks
-
- hallmark: on reverses of valves, struck: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter and maker's mark
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York; his 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
- 1949.114.31.1-2
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- Chased in the form of scallop shells, the reverses of the valves engraved with the initials E*S
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. 118-119, cat. no. 90, repr. p. 118.
Verification Level
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