Chocolate Jug

1733/34

Medium	silver
Dimensions	base: 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm) Overall: 10 13/16 in. (27.5 cm) spout to handle: 8 in. (20.3 cm) Weight: 45.86 oz (1300.1 g)
Object Number	1963.1
Acquisition	Acquired by the Clark, 1963
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Peter Archambo I, Chocolate Jug, 1733/34, silver. Clark Art Institute, Acquired by the Clark, 1963.1

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.. Exhibit Twenty-Two: Old Silver Acquisitions of 1962.. April 19-May 19, 1963.. 1963.. . "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums: January-March 1963". 26, Summer 1963. Art Quarterly. 1963:249-277. Mastai, M.-L. D'Otrange. "The Connoisseur in America." Connoisseur 154 (October 1963): 133–37. Gazette des Beaux-Arts.. "La chronique des arts." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 63 (Feb. 1964):61, supplement.. 1964.. Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.

Provenance

Samuel Chew and Henrietta Maria (Lloyd) Chew; by descent to their daughter Mary Chew and her husband, William Paca (1771–1840); to their son John Philemon Paca (1771–1840); to his son William Bennett Paca (1801–1870); to his daughter Sallie Phillips Wilmer Paca (b. 1844), who married Clifton M. Rasin; to their son William Rasin; sold to Mrs. Miles White, Jr.; ¹ with S. J. Shrubsole, Inc., New York; sold to Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, invoice dated 1 March 1963. 1. This provenance was provided by R. C. Ballard Thruston; see correspondence of 26 October 1926 and 3 June 1927 with Mr. Miles White, Jr., in Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute curatorial files. Additional information has been provided by Jennifer Goldsborough, Mary Cory, and Elaine M. rice; see Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute curatorial files.