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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.114.46.1
People
Thomas Robins, British
Title
Meat Dish
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1811-1812
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/54452

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
3.2 x 38.1 x 29.2 cm (1 1/4 x 15 x 11 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: Struck on reverse: lion passant, leopard's head, duty mark, date letters, and with maker's mark

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
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
1949.114.46.1
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The meat dishes oblong with double incurved corners and gadrooned rims, the borders engraved with a lozenge of arms flanked by supporters above a motto and surmounted by a ducal coronet

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. 176-177, cat. no. 171, repr. p. 177, details repr. p. 177.

Verification Level

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