1999.306.6: Teapot
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1999.306.6
- People
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? Maker's mark C?B
- Title
- Teapot
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: George III Drum-Form Teapot
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 1776-1777
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
- Period
- George III (1760-1820)
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/149779
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver, fruitwood, ivory
- Dimensions
-
13 x 20.6 x 10.2 cm (5 1/8 x 8 1/8 x 4 in.)
483 g - Inscriptions and Marks
-
- hallmark: under base, struck: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter
- hallmark: interior of cover, struck: lion passant
- maker's mark: under base, struck: C*B [unregistered maker's mark]
- coat of arms: side, engraved: unidentified coat-of-arms with those of Wyndham on an escutcheon of pretence
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
David Berg, New York, bequest; to the Fogg Museum, 1999
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of David Berg
- Accession Year
- 1999
- Object Number
- 1999.306.6
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- Cylindrical, the sides, flat hinged cover and straight tapering spout engraved with allover pattern of trelliswork, wood scroll handle, brown-stained ivory finial, one side with oval cartouche enclosing a coat-of-arms.
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. 163, cat. no. 149, repr. p. 163.
Verification Level
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