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.