1966.51.37: Two-Handled Cup

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1966.51.37

People

Francis Singleton, British (1659 - 1702)

Title

Two-Handled Cup

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

1700-1701

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London

Period

William and Mary (1688-1702)

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/228312

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

9.5 × 17.8 × 11.7 cm (3 3/4 × 7 × 4 5/8 in.)
214 g

Inscriptions and Marks

• hallmark: on rim, struck: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter
• maker's mark: on rim, struck: SI [in shaped punch] [Francis Singleton; Grimwade, no. 2550]
• inscription: on side, engraved: R - P

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

1966.51.37

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Circular, the flaring sides chased with a band of spiral fluting below a punched foliate band, and at the shoulder with a band of ropetwist between punched borders, with two cast beaded scroll handle.

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. 193, cat. no. 191, repr. p. 193, details repr. p. 193.

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