Two-Handled Cup and Cover

1696/97

Medium	silver
Dimensions	7 x 8 x 5 7/16 in. (17.8 x 20.3 x 13.8 cm) Lip diameter: 5 1/16 in. (12.9 cm) Base diameter: 3 13/16 in. (9.7 cm) Troy weight: 20.9 toz (650 g) Scratch weight: 21 toz (653.2 g)
Object Number	1955.325
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	On View

Image Caption

Robert Timbrell, Two-Handled Cup and Cover, 1696/97, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.325

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-two: Old Silver Dining Accessories. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1966. 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. Jackson, Charles James. An Illustrated History of English Plate. 2 volumes. London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd., 1911. Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.

Provenance

With Messrs. Spink¹; J. P. Morgan, sale Parke-Bernet, New York, 1 November 1947, lot 431; bought Robert Sterling Clark. 1. See Charles James Jackson, An Illustrated History of English Plate, 1911, vol. 1, p. 261, fig. 278. Reprint, New York: Dover Publications, 1969.