1940.68: Coffee Pot

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1940.68

People

Pezé Pilleau, British (1696 - 1776)

Title

Coffee Pot

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

1725-1726

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London

Period

George I (1714-1727)

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/230477

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

24.8 × 20.3 × 12.1 cm (9 3/4 × 8 × 4 3/4 in.)
806 g

Inscriptions and Marks

• hallmark: on rim, struck: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter
• maker's mark: on rim, struck: mark of Pezé Pilleau [Grimwade, no. 2212]
• maker's mark: on cover flange, struck: mark of Pezé Pilleau [Grimwade, no. 2212]
• hallmark: on cover flange, struck: lion passant
• inscription: on bottom, engraved: From "Uncle Dick" June 15, 1931

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Private Collector, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1940.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift

Accession Year

1940

Object Number

1940.68

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Descriptions

Description

Tapering cylindrical on molded foot, with panelled tapering straight spout and wood scroll handle, the hinged low domed cover with baluster finial.

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. 126, cat. no. 102, repr. p. 126. details repr. p. 126.

Verification Level