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Gabriel Sleath
English, 1674–1756
Teapot
1726/27
Image Caption
Gabriel Sleath, Teapot, 1726/27, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.164
Medium
silver
Dimensions
3 15/16 x 8 1/8 x 3 11/16 in. (10 x 20.6 x 9.4 cm)
Weight: 13.66 oz (387.2 g)
Object Number
1955.164
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Fourteen: Old Silver Teapots. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1960. Comstock, Helen. "Silver Teapots of the Eighteenth Century: An Antiques Survey." Antiques 82 (September 1962): 270–72. 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
With Crichton Brothers, London; sold to Robert Sterling Clark, 8 February 1927.