Charger
John Bache
1713–14
Medium/TechniqueSilver (Britannia standard), gilt
DimensionsOverall: 61 cm (24 in.)
Weight: 180 oz (5603 g)
Credit LineGift of Alan and Simone Hartman and Harriet J. Bradbury Fund
Accession number2001.26
ClassificationsSilver
Provenance1713/1714, made for Thomas Wentworth (b. 1672 – d. 1739), 1st Earl of Strafford and 3rd Baron Raby; by descent within the family; 1859, stored with other pieces of Wentworth silver at Glyn, Mills, and Co. bank, London; 1963, removed from the bank; June 27, 1963, consigned anonymously (presumably by the familial descendants of Thomas Wentworth), Sotheby's, London, lot 51. June 25, 1969, International Publishing Corporation sale, Christie's, London, lot 114. By 1972, Hilmar Reksten, Bergen, Norway; May 22, 1991, Hilmar Reksten sale, Christie's, London, lot 127, probably to Alan and Simone Hartman, New York; 2001, gift of Alan and Simone Hartman to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 21, 2001)
