1949.114.110.1-2: Pair of Tapersticks

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1949.114.110.1-2

People

Matthew Cooper I, British (free 1702 - insolvent 1731)

Title

Pair of Tapersticks

Classification

Lighting Devices

Work Type

lighting device

Date

1717-1718

Places

Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/48433

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

11.7 x 8.6 x 8.3 cm (4 5/8 x 3 3/8 x 3 1/4 in.)
unspecified: 252 g

Inscriptions and Marks

• hallmark: under bases, struck: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter and maker's mark

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York; his bequest to the 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

1949.114.110.1-2

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Each cast, of hexagonal form, on domed and stepped bases rising to knopped baluster stems and campana-shaped sockets, the bases later engraved with two crests and a Baron’s coronet

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), pp. 113-114, cat. no. 83, repr. p. 114, details repr. pp. 113-114.

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