Jug

1722/23

Medium	silver and wood
Dimensions	Height: 10 1/16 in. (25.6 cm) Width at handle: 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm) Lip diameter: 4 3/16 in. (10.6 cm) Base diameter: 4 in. (10.2 cm) Troy weight: 41.65 toz (1295.5 g)
Object Number	1984.16
Acquisition	Acquired by the Clark, 1984
Status	On View

Image Caption

John Elston, Jug, 1722/23, silver and wood. Clark Art Institute, Acquired by the Clark, 1984.16

Select Bibliography

Jones, E. Alfred. "Seventeenth-Century Plate at the Church Congress." Country Life 56 (Dec. 6, 1924):928-30.. 1924.. John W. Walker and Margaret I. Walker, eds.. The Church Plate of Berkshire.. Winchester: privately printed.. 1927.. John Herbert, ed.. Christie's Review of the Year, 1969-1970.. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1970.. 1970.. Margaret Holland.. English Provincial Silver.. New York: Arco Publishing.. 1971.. Margaret Holland.. "A Preference for Quality: The Devonshire School of Silversmiths." Antique Dealer and Collectors Guide 39 (April 1986):50-51.. 1986.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Annual Report, 1984. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1985. Wees, Beth Carver. "English Silver in an American Museum: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute." Silver Society Journal 4 (Autumn 1993):115–23. Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.

Provenance

John Walker, D.D., Exeter, 1722/23–1747; Mr. Godfrey Boulton, Esq., Grove Hall, Twyford, Berkshire; presented to the vicar and churchwardens of the parish church of Twyford St. Mary, Berkshire, 26 September 1915, sale Christie's, London, 3 December 1969, lot 80; bought H. R. Jessop, Ltd., London; with James Robinson, New York; sold to Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, May 1984.