Joseph Ward
English, active 1689–1734
Chocolate Pot (altered)
1701/2
| Medium | silver |
| Dimensions | 10 x 6 1/2 x 6 in. (25.4 x 16.5 x 15.2 cm) Base diameter: 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm) Weight: 27.98 oz (793.1 g) |
| Object Number | 1955.273 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Joseph Ward, Chocolate Pot (altered), 1701/2, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.273
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Nine: Old English Silver Coffee Pots and Salvers. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1958.
Wees, Beth Carver. "From Silver Spouts the Grateful Liquors Glide." In Three Cheers for the Twenty-Fifth. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1980.
James Lomax.. British Silver at Temple Newsam and Lotherton Hall: A Catalogue of the Leeds Collection.. Leeds: Leeds Art Collections Fund and W. S. Maney and Son.. 1992..
Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.
Provenance
With Peter Guille, Ltd., New York; sold to Robert Sterling Clark, invoice dated 2 June 1941.¹ 1. Entries in Clark's diary indicate he had seen this pot at Peter Guille's shop on 5 and 8 May; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute archives.
