Jug

1742/43

Medium	silver
Dimensions	Height: 6 9/16 in. (16.7 cm) Width at handle & spout: 7 9/16 in. (19.2 cm) Lip diameter: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm) Base diameter: 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm) Troy weight: 25.35 toz (788.5 g)
Object Number	1955.305
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Maker's mark obscured (possibly IW or AW), Jug, 1742/43, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.305

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. Teahan, John. Irish Silver: From the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century. Exhibition catalogue. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1984

Teahan, John. Irish Decorative Arts, 1550–1928. Exhibition catalogue. Dublin: National Museum of Ireland, 1990.

Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.

Provenance

Probably with Howard & Co., New York; sold to Robert Sterling Clark, 28 October 1927.¹ 1. Among Clark's surviving papers is an invoice from the New York firm of Howard & Co. documenting the purchase on 28 October 1927 of an "Old Irish pitcher Dublin 1769." Payment was received on 29 November. Whether this relates to the present jug is not certain, but several entries in Clark's diary make reference to the purchase. On 28 November 1927 he mentions buying a "fine Irish pitcher 1760," which Francine liked. He later questions its authenticity, but reconsiders when Peter Guille indicates it could be genuine. Although the evidence is inconclusive and the purchase date slightly variable, a comment that Guille "is inclined to think that the Pitcher was on an alcohol lamp stand" suggests he is referring to this object; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute archives.