Pair of Casters

c. 1698

Medium	silver-gilt and glass
Dimensions	[1] Height: 7 7/8 in. (20 cm); Base diameter: 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm) Troy weight: 19.3 toz (600.3 g) [2] Height: 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm) Base diameter: 2 11/16 in. (6.8 cm) Troy weight: 22.55 toz (701.4 g)
Object Number	1993.25
Acquisition	Acquired by the Clark, 1993
Status	On View

Image Caption

Pierre Harache, Pair of Casters, c. 1698, silver-gilt and glass. Clark Art Institute, Acquired by the Clark, 1993.25

Select Bibliography

Seaford House. Queen Charlotte's Loan Exhibition of Old Silver, English, Irish and Scottish, All Prior to 1739, with Examples of Present Day Work. Exhibition catalogue. London: St. Catherine's Press, 1929. Jones, E. Alfred. "The Collection of Sir J. H. B. Noble, Bt., Part I." International Studio 96 (May 1930): 4852. Watts, W. W. "An Exhibition of Huguenot Silver." Country Life 75 (2 June 1934): 562–63. H. Granville Fell.. "From Gallery and Mart." Connoisseur 94 (July 1934):58-62.. 1934.. Grieg, T. P. "In the Auction Rooms." Connoisseur 113 (March 1944): 65–68. Michael Clayton.. Christie's Pictorial History of English and American Silver.. Oxford: Phaidon/Christie's.. 1985.. Margaret Holland.. "Pierre Harache and the Huguenots." Apollo 122 (July 1985):57-59.. 1985.. Grimwade, Arthur G. Silver for Sale: Christie's in the Thirties. Norwich: Michael Russell. 1994. Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.

Provenance

Sold Christie's, London, 30 January 1908, lot 223; bought S. J. Phillips, London; Charles J. Wertheimer, Esq., sale Christie's, London, 14 July 1911, lot 60; Sir John H. B. Noble, Bart.; by descent to Sir Andrew Noble, Bart., sale Christie's, London, 24 November 1943, lot 44; bought How of Edinburgh, London; sold Christie's, London, 27 April 1983, lot 97 (Property of a Nobleman); with Brand Inglis Limited, London; sold to Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, May 1993.