Two-Handled Cup and Cover

1659/60

Medium	silver
Dimensions	Height: 5 5/16 in. (13.5 cm) Width at handles: 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm) Base diameter: 4 in. (10.2 cm) Lip diameter: 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm) Troy weight: 20.7 toz (643.8 g)
Object Number	1955.327
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Arthur Manwaring, Two-Handled Cup and Cover, 1659/60, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.327

Select Bibliography

Robert Sterling Clark Art Institute. Robert Sterling Clark Art Institute Presents an Exhibition of Silver of the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Robert Sterling Clark Art Institute, 1952. 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. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.

Provenance

Adam Baynes, Knowstrop, county York; W. H. Allen, Esq., Beech House, Tadcaster, Yorkshire, sale Christie's, London, 4 November 1936, lot 120; bought William Comyns & Sons Ltd., London; with Peter Guille, Ltd., New York; sold to Robert Sterling Clark, January 1937.¹ 1. Although no invoice for this object survives, a photograph stamped "From / PETER GUILLE, Ltd./630 Fifth Avenue/New York City" and inscribed "R. S. Clark Jan 26/37" suggests the source and date; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute curatorial files. Clark also refers to this cup in his diary entry of 23 January 1937: "Peter Guille’s.–F. liked the Cromwellian porringer... so much I bought [it]"; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute archives.