Robert Peake
English, free 1680
Monteith
1701/2
When filled with ice water, this unusually large silver bowl could be used to cool wineglasses by hooking their bases over the bowl's scalloped rim. Alternatively, the rim could be removed and the bowl could be used as a container for punch. This monteith’s size suggests that its original owner was both wealthy and sociable. The word “monteith” may derive from a Scottish nobleman called Monteigh, who was known to wear a cloak with a scalloped edge.
| Medium | silver |
| Dimensions | 12 7/16 x 19 3/4 x 18 11/16 in. (31.6 x 50.2 x 47.5 cm) Base diameter: 10 15/16 in. (27.8 cm) Troy weight: 224.5 toz (6982.7 g) Scratch weight (228 = 3): 228.15 toz (7096.3 g) |
| Object Number | 1955.521 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | On View |
Image Caption
Robert Peake, Monteith, 1701/2, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.521
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Provenance
Thomas Miller Whitehead, Esq. (by June 1862); Henry Pelham Archibald Douglas Pelham-Clinton, seventh duke of Newcastle, Clumber, Nottinghamshire; by descent to the Hon. the Earl of Lincoln, sale Christie's, London, 7 June 1937, lot 57; bought Lamb and Castle, London; with Peter Guille, New York; sold to Robert Sterling Clark, invoice dated 1 March 1939.¹ 1. According to Clark’s diary, the purchase took place on 23 February 1939: “F. came with me to Guille’s—Approved of Monteith Bowl Duke of Newcastle.—Bought it.” Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute archives.
