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Hot Water Urn

Charles Wright (free 1754, died in 1815)

1771–72

Object PlaceLondon, England

Medium/TechniqueSilver

Dimensions57.8 x 27.1 x 31.8 cm (22 3/4 x 10 11/16 x 12 1/2 in.) Weight: 3,161 gm (101 oz 12 dwt)

Credit LineTheodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Charlotte Beebe Wilbour

Accession number1971.130

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ClassificationsSilver

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InscriptionsARMORIALS: engraved on front of the urn, the arms of Morteyn or Power quartering Bloen, Bloer, Kelston, Little, Prydeux, Twichet, or Wotten, with Aldredin pretence; engraved on cover, an unidentified coat of arms and crest (quartrely 1 and 4, a fess embattled, and in chief two five-pointed mullets sable, gules a chevron engrailed or, between three griffin's heads erased; crest: a hand holding two serpents entwined). INSCRIPTIONS: engraved under edge of urn, "100-8".

ProvenanceSold Parke-Bernet, New York, March 16, 1971, lot 26, purchased April 14, 1971, Theodora Wilbour Fund in Memory of Charlotte Beebe Wilbour. (Accession Date: April 14, 1971)