MAKE A GIFT BUY TICKETS MAP
Standing Cup and Cover

Maker's mark TI, possibly for Thomas Jones or Thomas Judd

English, free 1639 or 1634

Standing Cup and Cover

1640/41

Medium silver
Dimensions 11 7/16 x 4 7/8 x 4 7/8 in. (29.1 x 12.4 x 12.4 cm) Base diameter: 4 1/16 in. (10.3 cm) Troy weight: 16.7 toz (519.4 g)
Object Number 1955.444
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status On View

Image Caption

Maker's mark TI, possibly for Thomas Jones or Thomas Judd, Standing Cup and Cover, 1640/41, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.444

Select Bibliography

Tanner, A. Eva. Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Old English Plate and Decorations and Orders. Exhibition catalogue. London: 25 Park Lane, 1929. 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. Grieg, T. P. "In the Auction Rooms." Connoisseur 116 (September 1945): 65–68. Times (London).. "The Sale Room: £57,000 for Walker Silver." Times, July 12, 1945:6.. 1945.. Carter, A. C. R. The Year's Art, 1945-1947. London: Hutchinson & Co.. 1947. Grimwade, Arthur G. "Period Ornament on English Silver, II: Charles I and Commonwealth". 56 (October 1952). Apollo. 1952:127-30. Hernmarck, Carl. The Art of the European Silversmith, 14301830. 2 vols. London and New York: Philip Wilson for Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1977. 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

R. W. M.Walker, Esq.¹, sale Christie's, London, 11 July 1945, lot 206; bought Francis Mallett; William Randolph Hearst, sale Parke-Bernet, New York, 7 December 1951, lot 87; Robert Sterling Clark. 1. The cup was lent by Walker to the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1926 until 1945 and possibly eaerlier to the London Museum.

Related