Tea or Hot-Water Urn and Cover and Stand

1767/68

Medium	silver
Dimensions	Body: Height 14 in. (35.6 cm) Width at handles: 12 3/16 in. (31 cm) Width at belly: 11 13/16 in. (30 cm) Troy weight: 58.75 toz (1827.3 g) Stand: 8 3/16 x 7 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. (20.8 x 18.4 x 18.4 cm) Troy weight : 1024.9 toz (31878 g) Assembled: Height: 21 1/4 in. (54 cm) Troy weight: 91.7 toz (2852.2 g)
Object Number	1955.348
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Thomas Whipham II and Charles Wright, Tea or Hot-Water Urn and Cover and Stand, 1767/68, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.348

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.

Provenance

Possibly with Léon Marion et Fils, Paris; sold to Robert Sterling Clark by July 1923.¹ 1. An entry in Clark's diary dated 30 July 1923 refers to a hot-water urn that he had purchased at "Mme. Marion's" for $150. Raymond Guille told him it was worth $800–900; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Archives.