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Sugar Bowl and Cover

No maker's mark

British

Sugar Bowl and Cover

1713–15

Medium silver
Dimensions 5 1/2 x 3 11/16 in. (14 x 9.4 cm) Base: 2 1/2 x 2 7/16 in. (6.4 x 6.2 cm) Weight: 9.87 oz (279.9 g)
Object Number 1955.320
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

No maker's mark, Sugar Bowl and Cover, 1713–15, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.320

Select Bibliography

Robert Sterling Clark Art Institute. Robert Sterling Clark Art Institute Presents an Exhibition of Silver of the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Robert Sterling Clark Art Institute, 1951. Guille, Peter. Exhibit Eighteen: Old Silver Tea Accessories. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, March 1962. 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. Wees, Beth Carver. "From Silver Spouts the Grateful Liquors Glide." In Three Cheers for the Twenty-Fifth. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1980. Teahan, John. Irish Silver: From the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century. Exhibition catalogue. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1984

Teahan, John. Irish Decorative Arts, 1550–1928. Exhibition catalogue. Dublin: National Museum of Ireland, 1990.

Comstock, Helen. "The Connoisseur in America." Connoisseur 106 (Sept. 1940): 716. Hackenbroch, Yvonne. English and Other Silver in the Irwin Untermyer Collection. The Irwin Untermyer Collection 6. Revised edition. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1969. Douglas Bennett.. Irish Georgian Silver.. London: Cassell & Company.. 1972.. Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.

Provenance

Sold Sotheby's, London, 1 July 1937, lot 112; bought Crichton Brothers, London; sold to Robert Sterling Clark, 12 October 1937.

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