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Dish (gilt)

George Wickes

English, 1698–1761

Dish (gilt)

1739/40

Medium silver gilt
Dimensions 7/8 x 12 3/16 x 12 3/16 in. (2.3 x 31 x 31 cm) Troy weight: 35.05 toz (1090.2 g) Scratch weight (34"14): 34.7 toz (1079.3 g)
Object Number 1955.418
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

George Wickes, Dish (gilt), 1739/40, silver gilt. Clark Art Institute, 1955.418

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. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Twenty-five: Old Silver Bowls and Dishes. Exhibition catalogue. Williamwtown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1964. 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. London, Christie's.. Important English and Foreign Silver, 28 March 1973.. 1973.. London, Sotheby's.. Highly Important English and Foreign Silver, 25 Oct. 1973.. 1973.. Grimwade, Arthur G. Rococo Silver, 1727-1765. London: Faber and Faber. 1974. Schroder, Timothy B. The Gilbert Collection of Gold and Silver. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: distributed in the U.S. by Thames and Hudson, 1988. Grimwade, Arthur G. London Goldsmiths, 16971837: Their Marks and Lives. Third ed., rev. and enl. London: Faber and Faber, 1990. Wees, Beth Carver. "English Silver in an American Museum: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute." Silver Society Journal 4 (Autumn 1993):115–23. Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.

Provenance

Probably Thomas, third earl of Scarborough (c. 1691–1752);¹ Mr. M. W. Jacobson, sale Christie’s, London, 5 May 1909, lot 73 (with a foot of 1847 attached); bought Huggins; Robert Sterling Clark. 1. G[eorge] E[dward] C[okayne], The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, 1982, 5:512.

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