Wine Funnel | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1940.22
People: Unidentified Artist
Title: Wine Funnel
Classification: Tools and Equipment
Work Type: funnel
Date: 1793-1794
Places: Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture: British
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/230565

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

12.1 x 7.9 x 7.9 cm (4 3/4 x 3 1/8 x 3 1/8 in.)
unspecified: 69 g

Inscriptions and Marks

hallmark: Struck on the bowl: lion passant, leopard's head, duty mark and date letter and with traces of maker's mark; the spout with traces of lion passant and maker's mark

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Gift of the Misses Elizabeth G. and Margaret Norton, 1940

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Misses Elizabeth G. and Margaret Norton
Accession Year: 1940
Object Number: 1940.22
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: The circular bowl and removable tapering spout with reeded borders, elaborately chased, probably in the nineteenth century, with foliage and scrolls.

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. 237, cat. no. 276, repr. p. 237., details repr. p. 237.

Verification Level

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1940.22: Wine Funnel