Aymé Videau
British, active 1733–1760
Pair of Sweetmeat Baskets (gilt)
1741/42
| Medium | silver gilt |
| Dimensions | [1] 2 1/2 x 5 9/16 x 4 11/16 in. (6.4 x 14.1 x 11.9 cm) Base diameter: 3 11/16 in. (9.4 cm) Troy weight: 5.1 toz (158.6 g) [2] 2 5/16 x 5 1/2 x 4 9/16 in. (5.9 x 14 x 11.6 cm) Base diameter: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm) Troy weight: 5.4 toz (168 g) |
| Object Number | 1955.260 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Aymé Videau, Pair of Sweetmeat Baskets (gilt), 1741/42, silver gilt. Clark Art Institute, 1955.260
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Twenty-five: Old Silver Bowls and Dishes. Exhibition catalogue. Williamwtown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1964.
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.
Mastai, M.-L. D'Otrange. "The Connoisseur in America." Connoisseur 156 (July 1964): 22023.
Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.
Provenance
Lord Henniker, sale Christie's, London, 30 March 1911, lot 65; bought William Comyns & Sons, Ltd., London; with Crichton Brothers, London; sold to Robert Sterling Clark, 6 December 1947.
