John Swift
English, free 1725
Teapot
1735/36
| Medium | silver and wood |
| Dimensions | Overall: 4 7/16 in. (11.3 cm) spout to handle: 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm) Weight: 15.36 oz (435.5 g) at belly: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.634 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | On View |
Image Caption
John Swift, Teapot, 1735/36, silver and wood. Clark Art Institute, 1955.634
Select Bibliography
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.
Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.
Provenance
James Smith of Jordan Hill, county Renfrewshire; A. Parker Smith, Esq., sale Christie's, London, 2 May 1956, lot 161; bought S. J. Shrubsole, New York; sold to Robert Sterling Clark, 2 July 1956.
