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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1966.51.64.1-2
People
Jonathan Alleine, British (active 1771 - )
Title
Pair of Sauceboats with Covers
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Pair of Gravy boats with Covers
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1773-1774
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/47920

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
13.6 x 21.6 x 9.8 cm (5 3/8 x 8 1/2 x 3 7/8 in.)
unspecified: 982 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: under bases and cover flanges, struck: Lion passant, leopard's head, date letter and maker's mark; lion passant and maker's mark on cover flanges

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
1966.51.64.1-2
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Boat-shaped on spreading bases with fluted swept handles and removable domed covers with vase-shaped finials, decorated with bright-cut bands of zigzag and scrolling ribbon within applied reeded borders, engraved on one side with a coat-of-arms against later-added foliage, the covers with a crest, engraved under the bases with scratch weights 15=19 and 15=18

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. 160, cat. no. 144, repr. p. 160, details repr. p. 160.

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