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Pair of Wine Cups

Maker's mark WF in shaped surround, possibly for William Frend

English, free 1613; buried 1625

Pair of Wine Cups

1619/20

Medium silver gilt
Dimensions [1] 7 x 2 11/16 x 2 11/16 in. (17.8 x 6.8 x 6.8 cm); base diameter: 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm) Troy weight: 5.35 toz (166.4 g); scratch weight (5=6): 5.3 toz (164.8 g) [2] 7 1/16 x 2 11/16 x 2 11/16 in. (17.9 x 6.8 x 6.8 cm); base diameter: 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm) Troy weight: 5.3 toz (164.8 g); scratch weight (5=6): 5.3 toz (164.8 g)
Object Number 1955.150
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status On View

Image Caption

Maker's mark WF in shaped surround, possibly for William Frend, Pair of Wine Cups, 1619/20, silver gilt. Clark Art Institute, 1955.150

Select Bibliography

Garrard & Co. Catalogue of the Exhibition of Choice Old English Plate from Private Collections in Aid of the Funds of the British Red Cross Society. Exhibition catalogue. London: Garrard & Co., 1915. Tanner, A. Eva. Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Old English Plate and Decorations and Orders. Exhibition catalogue. London: 25 Park Lane, 1929. 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. Robert Sterling Clark Art Institute. Robert Sterling Clark Art Institute Presents an Exhibition of Silver of the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Robert Sterling Clark Art Institute, 1952. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Twenty-eight: Old Silver Dining Accessories. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1965. 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. Jones, E. Alfred. "The Collection of Sir J. H. B. Noble, Bt., Part I." International Studio 96 (May 1930): 4852. Carter, A. C. R. "Forthcoming SalesDazzling Array of Morgan Miniatures." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 66, no. 387 (June 1935): xix-xx. Anonymous. "In the Auction Rooms." Connoisseur 96 (July 1935): 53–57. de Serre, J. "English Silver." Country Life 77 (25 May 1935): 554–56. Menzies, W. G. "Art in the Saleroom." Apollo 21, no. 126 (June 1935): 379–83. Menzies, W. G. "Art in the Saleroom." Apollo 22, no, 128 (August 1935): 113–17. Beard, Charles R. "Silver from St. Donat's Castle: Some Historic Pieces in the William Randolph Hearst, Esqre., Collection." Connoisseur 102 (December 1938): 28895. Anonymous."Forthcoming Sales: The Hearst Collection of Silver." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 73, no. 429 (December 1938): xvii-xviii. Anonymous. "The Almanac." Antiques 35 (February 1939): 86, 88, 9092, 946. Comstock, Helen. "English Silver in the Robert S. Clark Collection at Williamstown, Mass." Connoisseur Year Book (1959): 38–44. Mastai, M.-L. D'Otrange. "The Connoisseur in America." Connoisseur 159 (May 1965): 647. Wees, Beth Carver. "English Silver in an American Museum: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute." Silver Society Journal 4 (Autumn 1993):115–23. Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.

Provenance

Sold Christies, London, 7 July 1909, lot 37; bought Crichton Brothers, London; Sir John H. B. Noble, Bart., sale Christies, London, 3 June 1935, lot 140; bought E. Permain; William Randolph Hearst, sale Christie's, London, 14 December 1938, lot 93; bought Lamb and Castle, London; with Peter Guille, Ltd., New York; sold to Robert Sterling Clark, invoice dated 1 March 1939.¹ 1. Clark’s diary suggests that he purchased the cups on 24 February 1939: “Bought the pair of James Ist wine glasses gilt”; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute archives.

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