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Maker's mark HW, probably Henry Watson
English
Tankard
1574/75
Image Caption
Maker's mark HW, probably Henry Watson, Tankard, 1574/75, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.121
Medium
silver
Dimensions
6 15/16 x 5 7/16 x 4 1/4 in. (17.6 x 13.8 x 10.8 cm)
Lip diameter: 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm)
Troy weight: 13.1 toz (407.5 g)
Object Number
1955.121
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
Burlington Fine Arts Club. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Late Elizabethan Art. Exhibition catalogue. London: Privately printed for the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1926. "In the Sale Room." London Morning Post (12 December 1935). "The Sale Room: £6,859 for Old Silver." The London Times 12 December 1935: 10. 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. Comstock, Helen. "English Silver in the Robert S. Clark Collection at Williamstown, Mass." Connoisseur Year Book (1959): 38–44. 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. Hernmarck, Carl. The Art of the European Silversmith, 14301830. 2 vols. London and New York: Philip Wilson for Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1977. Alcorn, Ellenor M. English Silver in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:Silver Before 1697. Vol. 1. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1993. Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.
Provenance
The Countess of Milltown, Russborough, Ireland; by descent to Col. R. W. Chandos Pole, Radburne Hall, near Derby, sale Christie's, London, 1 July 1914, lot 59; bought Elkington & Co., London; Ernest R. Innes, Esq., sale Christie's, London, 11 December 1935, lot 124; bought William Comyns & Sons Ltd, London; with Peter Guille, Ltd., New York; sold to Robert Sterling Clark, invoice dated 2 January 1946.