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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.114.105
People
James Scott, Irish
Title
Sugar Basket
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1803-1804
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Ireland, Dublin
Period
George IV (1820-1830)
Culture
Irish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229290

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver, gilt
Dimensions
21.2 × 17.5 × 11.1 cm (8 3/8 × 6 7/8 × 4 3/8 in.)
287 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: under base, struck: Hibernia, crowned harp, date letter
  • hallmark: handle, struck: crowned harp
  • maker's mark: under base, struck: I [pellet] S [James Scott; Bennett, no. 299]
  • inscription: on side, engraved: [continental European crown] / DBI [19th century]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, bequest; to 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
1949.114.105
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Boat-shaped on spreading oval foot, lobed at the shoulder, with reeded swing handle; the side engraved in the nineteenth century with a continental European crown and monogram

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. 217, cat. no. 241, repr. p. 217, details repr. p. 217.

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