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Tankard

Maker's mark HW, probably Henry Watson

English

Tankard

1574/75

Medium silver
Dimensions 6 15/16 x 5 7/16 x 4 1/4 in. (17.6 x 13.8 x 10.8 cm) Lip diameter: 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm) Troy weight: 13.1 toz (407.5 g)
Object Number 1955.121
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

Maker's mark HW, probably Henry Watson, Tankard, 1574/75, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.121

Select Bibliography

Burlington Fine Arts Club. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Late Elizabethan Art. Exhibition catalogue. London: Privately printed for the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1926. 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. 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. "In the Sale Room." London Morning Post (12 December 1935). "The Sale Room: £6,859 for Old Silver." The London Times 12 December 1935: 10. Comstock, Helen. "English Silver in the Robert S. Clark Collection at Williamstown, Mass." Connoisseur Year Book (1959): 38–44. Hernmarck, Carl. The Art of the European Silversmith, 14301830. 2 vols. London and New York: Philip Wilson for Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1977. Alcorn, Ellenor M. English Silver in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:Silver Before 1697. Vol. 1. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1993. Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.

Provenance

The Countess of Milltown, Russborough, Ireland; by descent to Col. R. W. Chandos Pole, Radburne Hall, near Derby, sale Christie's, London, 1 July 1914, lot 59; bought Elkington & Co., London; Ernest R. Innes, Esq., sale Christie's, London, 11 December 1935, lot 124; bought William Comyns & Sons Ltd, London; with Peter Guille, Ltd., New York; sold to Robert Sterling Clark, invoice dated 2 January 1946.

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