Left to right: 2003.11.2.A-B, 2003.11.1.A-B, 2003.11.3.A-B Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Left to right: 2003.11.2.A-B, 2003.11.1.A-B, 2003.11.3.A-B Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2003.11.2.A-B
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Covered Jar
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
c. 1675
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/97068

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver gilt
Technique
Repoussé
Dimensions
15 x 9.5 cm (5 7/8 x 3 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: on underside, incised: Scratch weight, "No: 18/ 8: 11"
  • stamp: under base, punched: 20th-century Dutch control mark "Z II"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Private Collector [1], London, England, sold [through Sotheby's, London, 1974, lot 192]. Private Collector, Amsterdam, sold [through Sotheby's, Amsterdam, December 3, 2002, lot 39]; to [Rare Art London Ltd., London], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2003.

[1] The Covered Jars were sold as "Property of a Lady." The sale contained works from the collections of Sir George Albu, W.D.E. Allen, Sir Stephen Courtauld, Captain Sir Weldon Dalrymple Champneys, Galfry Willam Gatacre, Jennings Family, F. Naylor, and Mrs. Annesley Vachell.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Paul Clarke Stauffer Fund
Accession Year
2003
Object Number
2003.11.2.A-B
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Comprising a larger and pair of smaller examples, each inverted baluster on spreading foot, elaborately chased with foliage on a matted ground, the larger example with stylised snake heads tied with ribbon amid scrolling acanthus and garlands of fruit, the smaller examples with a band of alternating vertical water leaves and acanthus under an applied molded rim and chased above with winged angel heads and wild masks amid fruit and ribbons, all with necks chased with vertical acanthus leaves and with removable domed covers with similar chasing; the larger with fruit form finial and smaller with baluster finials; the larger engraved underneath No. 14 and with scratch weight 12: 12; the smaller examples engraved No. 18 8 = 11 and No. 19 8 = 10 respectively.

Publication History

  • Catalogue of Important English and Foreign Silver, auct. cat., Sotheby & Co. (London, England, December 12, 1974), pp. 112-3, lot 192, repr. in b/w
  • Vanessa Brett, The Sotheby's Directory of Silver 1600-1940, Sotheby's Publications (London, England, 1986), p. 133, no. 463, repr. in b/w
  • Dutch Glory, Art & Collectors, auct. cat., Sotheby's, Amsterdam (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 3, 2002), pp. 68-71, lot 39, repr. in color with details
  • 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. 56-57, cat. no. 22, repr. in color on p. 57, details repr. pg. 56-57

Exhibition History

  • Re-View: S424-426 Western Art from 1560 to 1900, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/16/2008 - 06/18/2011

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