Sauceboat
Peter Archambo I
(English (London), first mark entered 1721, died in 1767)
1741–42
Medium/TechniqueSilver (sterling standard)
DimensionsOverall: 19.5 x 23 cm (7 11/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
Weight: 53 oz 14 dwt (1670g)
Credit LineGift of Alan and Simone Hartman and Harriet J. Bradbury Fund
Accession number2001.64.1
ClassificationsSilver
ProvenanceAbout 1741/1742, made for Sir William Stanhope (b. 1702 - d. 1772), Eythrope, Buckinghamshire. Collis P. Huntington (b. 1821 - d. 1900) and Arabella Huntington (b. 1850 - d. 1924), New York; March 5-6, 1926, Collis and Arabella Huntington sale, Anderson Art Galleries, New York, lot 216. Henry Walters (b. 1848 - d. 1931), New York and Baltimore; to his widow, Sarah Green Walters (b. 1848 - d. 1943), Baltimore; December 3, 1943, Mrs. Henry Walters sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, lot 890. Jessie Woolworth Donahue (b. 1886 - d. 1971), New York; April 28-29, 1972, posthumous Donahue sale, Sotheby's, New York, lot 87. Spink and Son Ltd, London; by 1996, probably sold by Spink to Alan and Simone Hartman, New York; 2001, gift of Alan and Simone Hartman to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 21, 2001)
