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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.114.118.A-B
People
John Wisdome, British (active 1692-1735)
Title
Sugar Bowl and Cover
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1716-1717
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Period
George I (1714-1727)
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/51489

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
12.7 x 9.8 x 9.8 cm (5 x 3 7/8 x 3 7/8 in.)
315 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: under base, struck: Britannia, lion's head erased, date letter
  • hallmark: cover flange, struck: lion's head erased
  • maker's mark: struck under base: mark of John Wisdome [Grimwade, no. 3187]
  • maker's mark: cover flange, struck: mark of John Wisdome [Grimwade, no. 3187]
  • inscription: base, engraved, scratch weight: 10*4
  • inscription: base, engraved: I / TS

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, 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
1949.114.118.A-B
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Of spherical octagonal form on moulded stepped octagonal base, the cover with plain applied moulded rim and circular baluster-form finial issuing from an octagonal moulded calyx, the base engraved I over TS and with scratch weight 10*4.

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. 113, cat. no. 82, repr. p. 113.

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project

Verification Level

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