Monteith

Artists

Description

The raised plain hemispherical body on spreading circular cast foot; the removable scalloped rim with cast strapwork border with stylized shell cresting; engraved on one side with a coat of arms, helm and crest within foliate scroll mantling.

Dimensions

22.6 × 29.2 cm (8 7/8 × 11 1/2 in.) 1835 g

Provenance

Private Collector, London, sold [through Christie's, London, July 7, 1909, lot 74 (as by Samuel Lee)]. Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949.