1966.51.47: Two-Handled Cup

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1966.51.47

People

Seth Lofthouse, British (born 1699)

Title

Two-Handled Cup

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/227967

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

9.5 × 17.5 × 10.7 cm (3 3/4 × 6 7/8 × 4 3/16 in.)
237 g

Inscriptions and Marks

• hallmark: under base, struck: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter
• maker's mark: under base, struck: LO / [star] [in a shield-shaped punch] [Seth Lofthouse; Grimwade, no. 1945]
• inscription: under base, engraved: H / R A

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Mrs. Reginald Mott Hull, The Yellow House, Weston, MA. Edwin Hale Abbot Jr., Cambridge, MA, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1966.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Edwin H. Abbot

Accession Year

1966

Object Number

1966.51.47

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Circular with everted sides, and two beaded scroll handles, chased with spiral fluting under punched and rope-twist bands, the front with a vacant scroll and fish-scale cartouche.

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. 196, cat. no. 197, repr. p. 196, details repr. p. 196.

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