Coffee or Hot-Water Jug

1749/50

Medium	silver and leather
Dimensions	8 7/16 x 6 1/16 x 4 5/8 in. (21.4 x 15.4 x 11.7 cm) Weight: 22.41 oz (635.2 g)
Object Number	1955.242
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	On View

Image Caption

Paul de Lamerie, Coffee or Hot-Water Jug, 1749/50, silver and leather. Clark Art Institute, 1955.242

Select Bibliography

Robert Sterling Clark Art Institute. Robert Sterling Clark Art Institute Presents an Exhibition of Silver of the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Robert Sterling Clark Art Institute, 1951. Robert Sterling Clark Art Institute. Robert Sterling Clark Art Institute Presents an Exhibition of Silver by Paul de Lamerie. Exhibition catalogue. Williamastown, MA: Robert Sterling Clark Art Institute, 1953. Guille, Peter. Exhibit Eighteen: Old Silver Tea Accessories. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, March 1962. Carver, Beth S., and Eileen M. Casey. Georgian Grace: English Silver in the Age of Elegance. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1977. 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. Hare, Susan, ed. Paul de Lamerie: At the Sign of the Golden Ball. Exhibition catalogue. London: Goldsmiths' Hall, 1990. Phillips, A. S. Philip. Paul de Lamerie, Citizen and Goldsmith of London: A Study of His Life and Work, A.D. 1688–1751. London: B. T. Batsford, 1935. Carver, Beth S., and Eileen M. Casey. Silver by Paul de Lamerie at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1978. New York, Christie's.. Fine Silver, Objects of Vertu, and Russian Works of Art, 17 October 1992.. 1992.. Wees, Beth Carver. "English Silver in an American Museum: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute." Silver Society Journal 4 (Autumn 1993):115–23. Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997. Culme, John. The Jerome and Rita Gans Collection of English Silver at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: Part II. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Provenance

Lt.-Col. H. B. L. Hughes of Kinmel Park, Abergele, North Wales, sale Sotheby's, London, 13 June 1929, lot 88;¹ bought Crichton Brothers, London; Robert Sterling Clark. 1. Hughes owned a sizable collection of silver; in addition to six lots sold at Sotheby's in 1929, fifty lots of silver and silver-gilt were sold at Christie's, London, 4 March 1914.