Maker's Mark HG between two mullets and four pellets, probably Henry Greenway
English
Tankard (refurbished)
1654/55
| Medium | silver |
| Dimensions | 5 1/16 x 5 3/4 x 4 7/8 in. (12.9 x 14.6 x 12.4 cm) Lip diameter: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm) Troy weight: 15.05 toz (468.1 g) |
| Object Number | 1955.119 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Maker's Mark HG between two mullets and four pellets, probably Henry Greenway, Tankard (refurbished), 1654/55, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.119
Select Bibliography
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.
Comstock, Helen. "English Silver in the Robert S. Clark Collection at Williamstown, Mass." Connoisseur Year Book (1959): 38–44.
Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.
Provenance
With Peter Guille, Ltd., New York; sold to Robert Sterling Clark, invoice dated 2 December 1940.¹ 1. An entry in Clark's diary suggests this tankard was actually purchased on 25 October 1940. "Joined Francine at Peter Guille's—Guille had the nice Cromwellian small tankard—I bought it."
