Mug | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1966.51.58
People: Richard Gurney and Thomas Cooke II, British (1727 - )
Title: Mug
Classification: Vessels
Work Type: vessel
Date: 1755-1756
Places: Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture: British
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/227969

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

10.8 x 12.4 x 8.3 cm (4 1/4 x 4 7/8 x 3 1/4 in.)
unspecified: 299 g

Inscriptions and Marks

hallmark: under base; struck: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter and with maker's mark.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Edwin Hale Abbot Jr., Cambridge, MA, Bequest to Fogg Museum, 1966.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Edwin H. Abbot
Accession Year: 1966
Object Number: 1966.51.58
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Baluster on spreading foot and cast leaf-capped multi-scroll handle, engraved all over ca. 1860 with bright-cut and wrigglework borders, floral and ribbon swags and, on the front, with the initials EH in Gothic type.

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. 232, cat. no. 266, repr. p. 232, details repr. p. 232.

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1966.51.58: Mug