Beaker | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1966.51.10
People: Maker's mark M, mullet below, heart-shaped punch
Title: Beaker
Classification: Vessels
Work Type: vessel
Date: 1663-1664
Places: Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture: British
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/228326

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

10.2 x 8.3 cm (4 x 3 1/4 in.)
152 g

Inscriptions and Marks

maker's mark: struck under base: M [mullet below in heart-shaped punch] [Jackson, p. 121, line 1]
hallmark: struck under base: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter
inscription: base, scratch weight: oun. dwt. gr. / 5: 11: 21

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: 1966.51.10
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Slightly tapering with flaring lip, on molded ribbed foot, engraved with a band of stylized strapwork from which depend three bellflower sprays, the base with scratch weight 5 oun: 11 dwt. 21 gr.

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. 48, cat. no. 17, repr. in b/w.

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1966.51.10: Beaker