Robert Timbrell
English, free 1685/86?
Two-Handled Cup and Cover
1696/97
| Medium | silver |
| Dimensions | 7 x 8 x 5 7/16 in. (17.8 x 20.3 x 13.8 cm) Lip diameter: 5 1/16 in. (12.9 cm) Base diameter: 3 13/16 in. (9.7 cm) Troy weight: 20.9 toz (650 g) Scratch weight: 21 toz (653.2 g) |
| Object Number | 1955.325 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | On View |
Image Caption
Robert Timbrell, Two-Handled Cup and Cover, 1696/97, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.325
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-two: Old Silver Dining Accessories. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1966.
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.
Jackson, Charles James. An Illustrated History of English Plate. 2 volumes. London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd., 1911.
Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.
Provenance
With Messrs. Spink¹; J. P. Morgan, sale Parke-Bernet, New York, 1 November 1947, lot 431; bought Robert Sterling Clark. 1. See Charles James Jackson, An Illustrated History of English Plate, 1911, vol. 1, p. 261, fig. 278. Reprint, New York: Dover Publications, 1969.
