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and John Parker I
British, active 1760–1776
Pair of Tea Canisters ("Tea Tubs")
1770/71
Image Caption
and John Parker I, Pair of Tea Canisters ("Tea Tubs"), 1770/71, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.398
Medium
silver
Dimensions
[1] 4 11/16 x 3 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. (11.9 x 9.5 x 9.5 cm)
Troy weight: 15.7 toz (488.3 g)
[2] 5 x 3 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. (12.7 x 9.5 x 9.5 cm)
Troy weight: 17.6 toz (547.4 g)
Object Number
1955.398
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
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Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Seven: The Regency and Louis XVI Rooms. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1957. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Four & Exhibit Seven, Supplement: West Gallery. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1959. 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. Wees, Beth Carver. The Chinese Taste: European Visions of Cathay. Exhibition brochure. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1979. 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 Silver in an American Museum: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute." Silver Society Journal 4 (Autumn 1993):115–23. Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.