Two-Handled Dish

Artists

Description

Of shallow circular form with scalloped rim, chased and repoussé with radiating panels of stylized acorns and scrolls, the center with a reeded lozenge enclosing a later (probably nineteenth century) engraved crest of a cock, with two shell-form handles; the reverse engraved with an escutcheon enclosing traces of erased initials F over IE

Dimensions

4.45 x 26.67 cm (1 3/4 x 10 1/2 in.) unspecified: 269.7 g

Provenance

Lord Swaythling, sold [at The Swaythling Collection sale, Christie's, London, May 6, 1942, lot 93]. Arthur Archibald Hutchinson, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949.