1966.51.11.A-B: Two-Handled Cup and Cover
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1966.51.11.A-B
- People
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Maker's mark TL with escallop below in shield-shaped punch, British, English
- Title
- Two-Handled Cup and Cover
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 1664 - 1665
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/228303
Location
- Location
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Level 2, Room 2340, European and American Art, 17th–19th century, The Silver Cabinet: Art and Ritual, 1600–1850
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
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16.2 x 23.8 x 17.5 cm (6 3/8 x 9 3/8 x 6 7/8 in.)
755 g - Inscriptions and Marks
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- hallmark: struck on rim: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter
- hallmark: struck on reverse of cover flange: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter
- hallmark: cover foot: lion passant
- maker's mark: struck on rim: TL [with escallop below in shield-shaped punch] [Jackson, p. 137, line 8]
- maker's mark: struck on reverse of cover flange: TL [with escallop below in shield-shaped punch] [Jackson, p. 137, line 8]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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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
- 1966.51.11.A-B
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Of bulbous circular form, repoussé and chased with a broad band of flower heads with a running lion on one side and a bear with a chain around its neck on the other, all under a wrigglework band, with two cast ribbed scroll handles headed by female masks; the domed cover with similar chasing and with flat spool-form foot.
Embossed decoration of scrolling flower heads became popular in the years following the Restoration. Based on Dutch and north German examples, much of it was probably done by immigrant craftsmen.
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. 51, cat. no. 19, repr. in b/w; repr. in b/w on p. 6 (with cat. no. 19).
Exhibition History
- 32Q: 2340 Cabinet Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 09/24/2019; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/08/2025 - 01/01/2050
Subjects and Contexts
- Google Art Project
Verification Level
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