Pair of Casters
1717-1718
Artists
Description
Of cylindrical form on spreading cast dentilated bases, with applied moulded borders and mid-ribs; the bayonet-fitting high domed covers with similar dentilated borders, elaborately pierced with foliage, scrolls and exotic figures, with fluted double baluster finials issuing from calices of cut-card radiating stylized acanthus leaves (the covers with later-fitted pierced sleeves)
Dimensions
19.69 x 8.89 cm (7 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.) unspecified: 529.3 g
Provenance
Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York; bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1949.
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