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Coffeepot

David Willaume II

British, 1693–1761

Coffeepot

1735/36

Medium silver
Dimensions base: 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm) Overall: 7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm) spout to handle: 6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm) Weight: 22.11 oz (626.7 g)
Object Number 1955.420
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

David Willaume II, Coffeepot, 1735/36, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.420

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. 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 Tessiers Ltd., London; sold to Robert Sterling Clark, invoice dated 6 August 1952.

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