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Anthony Nelme
English, free 1679/80; died 1723
Coffeepot
1701/2
Image Caption
Anthony Nelme, Coffeepot, 1701/2, silver and wood. Clark Art Institute, 1955.274
Medium
silver and wood
Dimensions
Height: 9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm)
Width at handle: 6 in. (15.2 cm)
Base diameter: 3 15/16 in. (10 cm)
Weight: 28.03 oz (794.7 g)
Object Number
1955.274
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
On View
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. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Nine: Old English Silver Coffee Pots and Salvers. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1958. Comstock, Helen. "An Antiques Survey: English Silver Coffeepots." Antiques 76 (December 1959): 548–51. Banister, Judith. English Silver. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1965. Hackenbroch, Yvonne. English and Other Silver in the Irwin Untermyer Collection. The Irwin Untermyer Collection 6. Revised edition. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1969. Banister, Judith. Collecting Antique Silver. London: Ward Lock, 1972. 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 Peter Guille, Ltd., New York; sold to Robert Sterling Clark, invoice dated 30 December 1939.¹
1. Clark’s diary indicates he first saw this coffeepot on 27 June 1939; see Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute archives.