1933.73.1-3: Miniature 3-Piece Tea Set

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1933.73.1-3

People

Rebeccah Emes, British, English

Title

Miniature 3-Piece Tea Set

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

1816-1817

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/54419

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

10.5 x 15.6 x 7.3 cm (4 1/8 x 6 1/8 x 2 7/8 in.)
205 g

Inscriptions and Marks

• hallmark: Each piece : lion passant, leopard's head, date letter, duty mark and with maker's mark

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

C. R. Simpkins, Cambridge, MA; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1933.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of C. R. Simpkins, "A Tribute to the Class of 1892."

Accession Year

1933

Object Number

1933.73.1-3

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Comprising teapot, cream jug, and sugar basin, the cylindrical bodies chased with vertical flutes and stamped with stylized foliage, the sides with oval vacant cartouches; teapot with wooden loop handle, the hinged domed cover with conforming decoration, with ball finial; the cream jug and sugar basin with scroll handles

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. 240, cat. no. 281, repr. p. 240.

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