Caster

1672/73

Medium	silver
Dimensions	5 1/4 x 2 5/8 x 2 5/8 in. (13.3 x 6.7 x 6.7 cm) Troy weight: 6.5 toz (202.2 g)
Object Number	1955.443
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Maker's Mark WC crowned, rosette below, probably William Carter, Caster, 1672/73, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.443

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Twenty-eight: Old Silver Dining Accessories. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1965. H. J. Mayo.. "In the Auction Rooms: An Old-Time Crowded Audience at Christie's." Connoisseur 93 (June 1934):413-18.. 1934.. Carter, A. C. R. The Year's Art, 1935. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1935. . "Art in the Saleroom". 26 (Nov. 1937). Apollo. 1937:298-301. London, Christie's.. Highly Important Old English Silver, 25 June 1969.. 1969.. Clayton, Michael. The Collector's Dictionary of the Silver and Gold of Great Britain and North America. London: The Hamlyn Publishing Group for Country Life, 1971. London, Christie's.. Highly Important English Silver, 27 June 1973.. 1973.. Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.

Provenance

Sold Sotheby's, London, 11 April 1934 (property of a Scottish Country Gentleman), lot 22;¹ bought William Permain, London; William Randolph Hearst, sale Sotheby's, London, 17 November 1937, lot 72;² bought Crichton Brothers, London; sold to Robert Sterling Clark, 17 November 1937. 1. The arms are incorrectly assigned in the sale catalogue to William Crichton, second earl of Dumfries; see Sotheby's, London, 11 April 1934, p. 6, lot 22. 2. This sale was in fact anonymous, catalogued by Sotheby's as "The Property of a Gentleman, a Well-Known Collector." The identity of the collector, William Randolph Hearst, was, however, immediately revealed by the press. See, for example, "Small Buids Made for Hearst Silver," New York Times, 18 November 1937, p. 25.