1949.114.101.1-2: Pair of Double-lipped Sauceboats

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1949.114.101.1-2

People

John Chartier, British (free 1698)

Title

Pair of Double-lipped Sauceboats

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

1728-1729

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/51487

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

10.2 x 20.3 x 19 cm (4 x 8 x 7 1/2 in.)
unspecified: 906 g

Inscriptions and Marks

• hallmark: under base, struck: Lion passant, leopard's head, date letter and 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

1949.114.101.1-2

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Of oval double-lipped form on spreading bases, with molded rims and each with two scroll handles; each engraved twice with a crest of a wolf statant and, slightly later, with a boar’s head pierced with a spear

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. 199-200, cat. no. 205, repr. p. 199, details repr. p. 199.

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