Maker's mark IM with star between, possibly Jacob Marsh or John Moore
English
Coffeepot (altered)
1768/69
| Medium | silver |
| Dimensions | base: 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm) Overall: 10 1/4 in. (26 cm) spout to handle: 8 1/16 in. (20.5 cm) Weight: 29.62 oz (839.8 g) |
| Object Number | 1955.445 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Maker's mark IM with star between, possibly Jacob Marsh or John Moore, Coffeepot (altered), 1768/69, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.445
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.
Banister, Judith. English Silver. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1965.
Banister, Judith. Collecting Antique Silver. London: Ward Lock, 1972.
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 31 May 1952.
