Kitchen Caster
c. 1720
Artists
Description
Of cylindracal form, the lower part slightly bowed below a chased horizontal rib, the slightly spreading foot and reeded scroll handle, the removable domed cover with applied moulded border, pierced with holes, the base engraved B over EI.
Dimensions
7.6 x 4.8 cm (3 x 1 7/8 in.) unspecified: 88 g
Provenance
Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949.
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