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Sugar Tongs

Maker's mark IL, probably for John Lefebure

English, free 1714

Sugar Tongs

c. 1720

Medium silver
Dimensions Length: 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm) Weight: 0.44 oz (12.4 g)
Object Number 1955.140
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status On View

Image Caption

Maker's mark IL, probably for John Lefebure, Sugar Tongs, c. 1720, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.140

Select Bibliography

Guille, Peter. Exhibit Eighteen: Old Silver Tea Accessories. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, March 1962. Wees, Beth Carver. "From Silver Spouts the Grateful Liquors Glide." In Three Cheers for the Twenty-Fifth. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1980. 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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