Kettle on Lamp Stand

Artists

Description

Of circular baluster form on cast rim foot, with paneled swan-neck spout headed by a stylized leaf and with overhead swing handle rising from openwork scrolls applied to the shoulders, with turned ivory handle (probably replaced a wooden one in the nineteenth century); the removable domed cover with squat baluster finial; the circular stand on three cast multi-scroll supports terminating in octagonal pads, with two scroll hinged side handles and central circular burner with plain removable cover, the kettle hinged and chained to the stand.

Dimensions

39.5 x 29.8 x 22.2 cm (15 9/16 x 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 in.) unspecified: 2988 g

Provenance

Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1949.