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Kettle on Lamp Stand

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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.
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts Archibald Alexander Hutchinson New York; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum 1949. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Bequest of Archibald A. Hutchinson Esq.
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Title: Kettle on Lamp Stand
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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.

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