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Two-Handled Cup and Cover

Paul de Lamerie

English, 1688–1751

Two-Handled Cup and Cover

1730/31

Medium silver
Dimensions 10 3/8 x 10 5/16 x 6 3/16 in. (26.4 x 26.2 x 15.7 cm) Base diameter: 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm) Troy weight: 54.9 toz (1707.6 g)
Object Number 1955.371
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status On View

Image Caption

Paul de Lamerie, Two-Handled Cup and Cover, 1730/31, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.371

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. Robert Sterling Clark Art Institute. Robert Sterling Clark Art Institute Presents an Exhibition of Silver by Paul de Lamerie. Exhibition catalogue. Williamastown, MA: Robert Sterling Clark Art Institute, 1953. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Twenty-eight: Old Silver Dining Accessories. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1965. Carver, Beth S., and Eileen M. Casey. Georgian Grace: English Silver in the Age of Elegance. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1977. Hare, Susan, ed. Paul de Lamerie: At the Sign of the Golden Ball. Exhibition catalogue. London: Goldsmiths' Hall, 1990. Anonymous. "The First Lamerie Exhibition." Antiques 63 (June 1953): 516–17. Comstock, Helen. "English Silver in the Robert S. Clark Collection at Williamstown, Mass." Connoisseur Year Book (1959): 38–44. Davidson, Ruth. "Current and Coming." Antiques 88 (August 1965): 158, 162. Carver, Beth S., and Eileen M. Casey. Silver by Paul de Lamerie at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1978. Wees, Beth Carver. "English Silver in an American Museum: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute." Silver Society Journal 4 (Autumn 1993):115–23. Kern, Steven, et al. The Clark: Selections from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996. Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997. Wees, Beth Carver. "Silver in the Clark Art Institute." The Magazine Antiques 62, no. 4 (October 1997): 536–45.

Provenance

By descent to Robert C. Blencowe, Esq., The Hooke, Chailey, Sussex,¹ sale Christie’s, London, 16 May 1935, lot 69; bought Chapelle and Mantell, London; with Peter Guille, Ltd., New York; sold to Robert Sterling Clark, invoice undated. 1. Robert Campion Blencowe (1858-1936) was the great-great-great-great-grandson of Thomas Blencowe (see heraldry). Burkes Landed Gentry, 15th ed., s.v. "Blencowe."

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