Salver
1669 - 1670
Artists
Description
Circular, repoussé and chased with bands of large flower heads with a lion, a dragon and a stag at intervals, the center engraved with a circular cartouche of stylized sprigs enclosing punched initials MT over RT and date 1676 on domed spool form foot.
Dimensions
9.2 × 36.2 cm (3 5/8 × 14 1/4 in.) 899 g
Provenance
J.E. Taylor, London, 1901. Edwin Hale Abbot Jr., Cambridge, MA, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1966.
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