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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.114.102
People
Paul De Lamerie, British (Bois-le-Duc 1688 - 1751 London)
Title
Cream Jug
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Cream Jug - Nine-sided
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
c. 1720-1732
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Period
George I (1714-1727)
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229282

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
7.9 × 10.5 × 5.7 cm (3 1/8 × 4 1/8 × 2 1/4 in.)
160 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • maker's mark: under base, struck three times: mark for Paul de Lamerie [Hare, no. 3; Grimwade, no. 1892]
  • coat of arms: engraved on side: demi-talbot out of a ducal coronet [used by several families] [probably 19th century]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1949.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Archibald A. Hutchinson, Esq.
Accession Year
1949
Object Number
1949.114.102
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Cast in two halves, of nine-sided form raised on three hoof feet of scalloped outline, the cast multi-scroll handle surmounted by a palmette, the side engraved with a slightly later crest.

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), pp. 119-120, cat. no. 92, repr. p. 119.

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