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Toilet Service (assembled)

Thomas Jenkins and maker's mark AH, star above, crescent below, probably for Abraham Hind

English, active second half of the 17th century

Toilet Service (assembled)

1673–82

Medium silver
Object Number 1955.122
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

Thomas Jenkins and maker's mark AH, star above, crescent below, probably for Abraham Hind, Toilet Service (assembled), 1673–82, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.122

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. 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. Wees, Beth Carver. The Chinese Taste: European Visions of Cathay. Exhibition brochure. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1979. Comstock, Helen. "English Silver in the Robert S. Clark Collection at Williamstown, Mass." Connoisseur Year Book (1959): 38–44. Grimwade, Arthur G., and Judith Banister. "A Case of Mistaken Identity: Thomas Jenkins." Proceedings of the Society of Silver Collectors 2 (Spring 1982): 18593. Grimwade, Arthur G., and Judith Banister. "Thomas Jenkins Unveiled". Connoisseur 195 (July 1977): 172–81. Hernmarck, Carl. The Art of the European Silversmith, 14301830. 2 vols. London and New York: Philip Wilson for Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1977. Brooks, John H. Highlights: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1981.

Glanville, Philippa. "English Seventeenth-Century Chinoiserie Silver." In The Jaime Ortiz-Patiño Collection: English Seventeenth-Century Chinoiserie Silver. Auction catalogue. New York: Sotheby's, 21 May 1992.

Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.

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