1949.114.5.1-2: Pair of Tea Caddies
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1949.114.5.1-2
- People
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Matthew Cooper I, British (free 1702 - insolvent 1731)
- Title
- Pair of Tea Caddies
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 1715-1716
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
- Period
- George I (1714-1727)
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/47832
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
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14.6 x 8.6 x 5.7 cm (5 3/4 x 3 3/8 x 2 1/4 in.)
unspecified: 409 g - Inscriptions and Marks
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- hallmark: on flanges, bases and interior of covers, struck: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter and maker's mark; maker's mark and lion's head erased on bases; maker's mark on interior of covers
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
- 1949.114.5.1-2
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Of rectangular stepped baluster form with canted corners, on cast spreading bases of conforming outline; the removable baluster domed covers and vase form finials also of conforming outline; the sides engraved with a crest, the bases engraved RC over RP
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. 110, cat. no. 77, repr. p. 110, details repr. p. 110.
Verification Level
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