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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1966.51.63.1-2
People
Maker's mark IL on oval serrated punch
Title
Pair of Goblets
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
c. 1770
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Ireland, Dublin
Culture
Irish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/47829

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
16.2 x 8.9 cm (6 3/8 x 3 1/2 in.)
unspecified: 396 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: under bases, struck: Hibernia, crowned harp
  • maker's mark: under bases, struck: IL [in script on oval serrated punch] [possibly for John Laughlin, Jr., or John Lloyd, Sr., or John Locker] [Bennett, no. 259]
  • coat of arms: on bowls, engraved: crest of an owl [unidentified]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edwin Hale Abbot Jr., Cambridge, MA, Bequest to Fogg Museum, 1966.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Edwin H. Abbot
Accession Year
1966
Object Number
1966.51.63.1-2
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The egg-shaped bowls on spreading feet chased with a band of gadrooning, with bright-cut and wrigglework borders, the front with a shield-shaped cartouche enclosing a crest, surmounted by tied ribbons and with crossed laurel sprays below

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. 159, cat. no. 142, repr. p. 159, detail repr. p. 159.

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