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Pair of Sauce Boats

Maker's Mark J.W in script

English | Irish

Pair of Sauce Boats

c. 1750–1775

Medium silver
Dimensions [1] 4 7/8 x 9 3/8 x 4 1/2 in. (12.4 x 23.8 x 11.4 cm) Troy weight: 14.3 toz (444.9 g) [2] 5 1/16 x 9 7/16 x 4 1/4 in. (12.9 x 24 x 10.8 cm) Troy weight: 14.7 toz (457.2 g)
Object Number 1955.195
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

Maker's Mark J.W in script, Pair of Sauce Boats, c. 1750–1775, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.195

Select Bibliography

Robert Sterling Clark Art Institute. Robert Sterling Clark Art Institute Presents an Exhibition of Silver of the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Robert Sterling Clark Art Institute, 1951. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-two: Old Silver Dining Accessories. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1966. Wildenstein & Company. An Exhibition of Treasures from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Paintings, drawings & rare silver, for the benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, inc. (CRIA). Exhibition catalogue. New York: Wildenstein & Company, 1967. Teahan, John. Irish Silver: From the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century. Exhibition catalogue. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1984

Teahan, John. Irish Decorative Arts, 1550–1928. Exhibition catalogue. Dublin: National Museum of Ireland, 1990.

Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.

Provenance

With Howard & Co., New York; sold to Robert Sterling Clark, 16 February 1928.

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