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Teapot

James Smith I

English, active 1715–1740

Teapot

1720/21

Medium silver
Dimensions 5 9/16 x 7 1/16 x 4 15/16 in. (14.1 x 17.9 x 12.5 cm) Weight: 12.78 oz (362.4 g)
Object Number 1955.185
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

James Smith I, Teapot, 1720/21, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.185

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Fourteen: Old Silver Teapots. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1960. 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 June 1941.¹ 1.Clark mentions seeing "a nice bread loaf Queen Ann [sic] teapot" in Guille's shop on 5 and 8 May 1941; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute archives.

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