Paul de Lamerie
English, 1688–1751
Coffeepot
1725/26
| Medium | silver |
| Dimensions | base: 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm) Overall: 8 7/16 in. (21.4 cm) Weight: 29.62 oz (839.8 g) at handle: 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.404 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Paul de Lamerie, Coffeepot, 1725/26, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.404
Select Bibliography
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.
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.
S. J. Phillips. Advertisement. Art News 31 (27 May 1933).
Art News.. "Lamerie's Carved Silver." Art News 52 (June-Aug.1953):28.. 1953..
Comstock, Helen. "An Antiques Survey: English Silver Coffeepots." Antiques 76 (December 1959): 548–51.
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.
Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.
Brooke, David S., Rafael Fernandez, and Beth Carver Wees. Three Cheers for the Twenty-Fifth. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1980.
Provenance
With S. J. Phillips, London;¹ with Peter Guille, Ltd., New York; sold to Robert Sterling Clark, invoice dated 1 November 1940. 1. The coffeepot was advertised by S. J. Phillips from 27 May 1933 through 23 March 1935 in Art News.
