1966.51.58: Mug
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1966.51.58
- People
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Richard Gurney and Thomas Cooke II, British (1727 - )
- Title
- Mug
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 1755-1756
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/227969
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
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10.8 x 12.4 x 8.3 cm (4 1/4 x 4 7/8 x 3 1/4 in.)
unspecified: 299 g - Inscriptions and Marks
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- hallmark: under base; struck: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter and with maker's mark.
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Edwin Hale Abbot Jr., Cambridge, MA, Bequest to Fogg Museum, 1966.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Edwin H. Abbot
- Accession Year
- 1966
- Object Number
- 1966.51.58
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Baluster on spreading foot and cast leaf-capped multi-scroll handle, engraved all over ca. 1860 with bright-cut and wrigglework borders, floral and ribbon swags and, on the front, with the initials EH in Gothic type.
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. 232, cat. no. 266, repr. p. 232, details repr. p. 232.
Verification Level
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