1949.114.18: Inkstand

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1949.114.18

People

Peter Harache I

Title

Inkstand

Classification

Tools and Equipment

Work Type

inkstand

Date

1702-1703

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/229288

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

6.3 x 18.7 x 13 cm (2 1/2 x 7 3/8 x 5 1/8 in.)
1180 g

Inscriptions and Marks

• hallmark: struck on side: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter
• coat of arms: on top, engraved: The arms are those of Stanhope, for Philip, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield (1634-1713). A wine cistern at Penshurst has the same coat of arms (Hartop 2003)
• hallmark: struck on interior of each cover: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter
• hallmark: struck on removable pounce pot: lion's head erased
• maker's mark: struck on side: [annulet] / [two crosses/ HA [in shaped punch] [ Pierre Harache ? I, Grimwade, no. 936]
• maker's mark: struck on interior of each cover: [annulet] / [two crosses/ HA [in shaped punch] [ Pierre Harache ? I, Grimwade, no. 936]
• maker's mark: struck on pounce pot: [annulet] / [two crosses/ HA [in shaped punch] [ Pierre Harache ? I, Grimwade, no. 936]
• coat of arms: engraved on one cover: an earl's achievement, for Philip, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield
• inscription: engraved on one cover: a crest and earl's coronet, Stanhope, for Philip, 2nd earl of Chesterfield
• inscription: engraved, side of pounce pot: earl;s achievementa nd crest with the arms of Stanhope, for Philip, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield
• inscription: on base, engraved, scratch weight: 45:1

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield (1634-1713). 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

1949.114.18

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Rectangular on four bun feet, with applied reeded borders, the top formed of two flaps opening lengthwise to reveal, on one side, a dished pen compartment, and, on the other, three square compartments, one fitted with a removable pounce pot with similar borders, the top pierced with continuous holes and with baluster finial, one cover engraved with an earl's achievement, the other with a crest and earl's coronet, the side of the pounce pot also engraved with the same crest and coronet, the base with scratch weight 45:1.

Publication History

• K. C. Buhler, French, English and American Silver: A Loan Exhibition in Honor of Russell A. Plimpton, exh. cat., Minneapolis Society of the Arts (Minneapolis, MN, 1956), no. 90
• 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. 88-91, cat. no. 53, repr. p. 89, details repr. pp. 88-89.

Exhibition History

• French, English and American Silver: A Loan Exhibition in Honor of Russell A. Plimpton, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 06/09/1956 - 07/15/1956

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