Pair of Sauceboats | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1966.51.57.1-2
People: Daniel Piers, British (born 1746)
Title: Pair of Sauceboats
Classification: Vessels
Work Type: vessel
Date: 1754-1755
Places: Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Period: George II (1727-1760)
Culture: British
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/47919

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

10.16 x 18.7 x 9.7 cm (4 x 7 3/8 x 3 13/16 in.)
596 g

Inscriptions and Marks

hallmark: under bases, struck: Lion passant, leopard's head, date letter, and maker's mark

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: 1966.51.57.1-2
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: The lipped oval bodies each raised on three hoof and shell feet, with gadrooned rims and scroll handles, the sides engraved with a crest, underneath with scratch weights 10 =6 and 10=6

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. 154, cat. no. 134, repr. p. 154.

Verification Level

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1966.51.57.1-2: Pair of Sauceboats