No maker's mark
British
Pair of Sauce Ladles
1776/77
Medium | silver |
Object Number | 1955.137 |
Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
Status | Off View |
Image Caption
No maker's mark, Pair of Sauce Ladles, 1776/77, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.137
Select Bibliography
Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.
Provenance
With Marion, Paris; sold to Robert Sterling Clark, 31 May 1924.¹ 1. Although no invoice survives for these ladles, they appear to be the “two ladles English” cited in Clark’s diary. These were among several pieces of English silver Clark purchased in Paris during the 1910s and 1920s.