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Cream Jug

No maker's mark

British

Cream Jug

probably 1746/47

Medium silver
Dimensions 3 5/8 x 3 9/16 x 1 15/16 in. (9.2 x 9 x 4.9 cm) Base diameter: 2 in. (5.1 cm) Troy weight: 6.4 toz (199.1 g)
Object Number 1955.437
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

No maker's mark, Cream Jug, probably 1746/47, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.437

Select Bibliography

Guille, Peter. Exhibit Eighteen: Old Silver Tea Accessories. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, March 1962. Carver, Beth S., and Eileen M. Casey. Georgian Grace: English Silver in the Age of Elegance. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1977. 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. Grimwade, Arthur G. Rococo Silver, 1727-1765. London: Faber and Faber. 1974. Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.

Provenance

With Carrington & Co., Ltd., London; sold to Robert Sterling Clark, 17 May 1938.

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