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Coffeepot

David King

Irish, free 1690; died 1737

Coffeepot

1708/9–1709/10

Medium silver and wood
Dimensions Height: 10 5/8 in. (27 cm) Width at handle: 6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm) Base diameter: 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm) Weight: 34.67 oz (982.9 g)
Object Number 1955.283
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status On View

Image Caption

David King, Coffeepot, 1708/9–1709/10, silver and wood. Clark Art Institute, 1955.283

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. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Four & Exhibit Seven, Supplement: West Gallery. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1959. 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.

Teahan, John. Irish Decorative Arts, 1550–1928. Exhibition catalogue. Dublin: National Museum of Ireland, 1990.

Comstock, Helen. "An Antiques Survey: English Silver Coffeepots." Antiques 76 (December 1959): 548–51. 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 September 1941.

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