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Punch Bowl

Thomas Bolton

Irish, died 1736

Punch Bowl

1713–15

Medium silver
Dimensions 5 3/4 x 9 7/8 x 9 7/8 in. (14.6 x 25.1 x 25.1 cm) Base diameter: 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm) Troy weight: 37.95 toz (1180.5 g)
Object Number 1955.87
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status On View

Image Caption

Thomas Bolton, Punch Bowl, 1713–15, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.87

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. Comstock, Helen. "The Connoisseur in America." Connoisseur 107 (May 1941): 165–70. Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.

Provenance

James Ivory, Esq., Laverockdale House, Colinton, Midlothian, sale Sotheby's, London, 8 April 1937, lot 170; bought S. J. Phillips, London; with Peter Guille, Ltd., New York; sold to Robert Sterling Clark, invoice dated 2 December 1940¹. 1. According to Clark's diary, this bowl was purchased on 20 November 1940.

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