Object Details
- Thomas Heming, English, 1723 – 1801
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Tea urn in the form of Atlas supporting the world. Triangular base (a) with openwork decoration, on three ball feet, supporting kneeling figure of Atlas holding a spherical urn (b) on his shoulders. Urn relief decoration featuring four wreathed circular medallions, each suspended from a bow and showing one of four allegorical figures of the continents (Europe, Asia, America, and Africa) with attributes. Embossed acanthus leaves supporting two ring handles. Two pendant laurel leaf tassels, each with oval medallion showing a female head in profile. One pendant tassel conceals a spout; its moveable medallion covers a keyhole. Slightly domed lid (c) engraved with heraldic lion sejant, and moveable laurel leaf finial with perforated stem at center. Interior cylinder (for heating liquid) is base metal.
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde
- 1777
- Accession Number
- 1960-1-23-a/c
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- metalwork
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- tea urn
- Type
- tea urn
- Medium
- silver, metal (interior cylinder), wood (base)
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (overall): 43.5 × 25 × 20 cm (17 1/8 × 9 13/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
- H x W x D (base, figure, and interior cylinder (a)): 27.9 × 15.7 × 13.7 cm (11 in. × 6 3/16 in. × 5 3/8 in.)
- H x W x D (urn (b)): 18.2 × 25 × 20 cm (7 3/16 × 9 13/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
- H x diam. (lid with moveable finial (c)): 8 × 9.1 cm (3 1/8 × 3 9/16 in.)
- H x diam. (domed lid only): 1.9 × 9.1 cm (3/4 × 3 9/16 in.)
- H x diam. (moveable finial only): 8.5 × 2.5 cm (3 3/8 in. × 1 in.)
- made in
- London, England
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1960-1-23-a_c
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq44cc28e86-517a-46bf-88d8-95153103b260
