Dram Cup | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1949.114.98
People: George Greenhill Jones, British (active 1719 -1748)
Title: Dram Cup
Classification: Vessels
Work Type: vessel
Date: 1722-1723
Places: Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Period: George I (1714-1727)
Culture: British
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/229289

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

4.8 × 4.8 cm (1 7/8 × 1 7/8 in.)
36 g

Inscriptions and Marks

hallmark: on side, struck: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter
maker's mark: on side, struck: [mark of George Greenhill Jones] [Grimwade, no. 1563]
inscription: on base, engraved: 1722

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: 1949.114.98
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: The plain flaring bowl on cast domed foot, with reeded rim.

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. 121, cat. no. 95, repr. p. 121.

Verification Level

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1949.114.98: Dram Cup