Meat Dish | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1949.114.46.1
People: Thomas Robins, British
Title: Meat Dish
Classification: Vessels
Work Type: vessel
Date: 1811-1812
Places: Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture: British
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/54452

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

3.2 x 38.1 x 29.2 cm (1 1/4 x 15 x 11 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

hallmark: Struck on reverse: lion passant, leopard's head, duty mark, date letters, and with 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: 1949.114.46.1
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: The meat dishes oblong with double incurved corners and gadrooned rims, the borders engraved with a lozenge of arms flanked by supporters above a motto and surmounted by a ducal 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. 176-177, cat. no. 171, repr. p. 177, details repr. p. 177.

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1949.114.46.1: Meat Dish