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.