Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- (a) Ovoid body with fluting at top and bottom. Beaded vertical scroll handles fastened to body with twin leaves and berries. Fluted and foliated spigot with bone handle. Engraved coat of arms: Parter per fess, gules, two mullets and sun in its splendor; azure, a citadel with two towers; impaled with argent, a chevron azure, three holly leaves slipped, vertical. (b) High, concave cover, with bulging fluted top and flame finial. (c) Rectangular stand with openwork scrolled apron and four ball-and-claw feet.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Maker
- Auguste Le Sage, British, active London 1769 – 1780s
- Date
- 1770–1771
- Credit Line
- Gift of Anonymous Donor
- Medium
- silver, bone
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (overall): 51.1 × 28.5 × 29.4 cm (20 1/8 × 11 1/4 × 11 9/16 in.)
- H x W x D (a: urn): 22 × 31.1 × 29 cm (8 11/16 × 12 1/4 × 11 7/16 in.)
- H x diam. (b: lid): 13 × 9.9 cm (5 1/8 × 3 7/8 in.)
- H x W x D (c: stand): 18.2 × 17 × 17 cm (7 3/16 × 6 11/16 × 6 11/16 in.)
- Type
- metalwork
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- hot water urn
- Type
- hot water urn
