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Paul de Lamerie
English, 1688–1751
Coffeepot
1725/26

Image Caption

Paul de Lamerie, Coffeepot, 1725/26, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.404
Medium
silver
Dimensions
base: 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm) Overall: 8 7/16 in. (21.4 cm) Weight: 29.62 oz (839.8 g) at handle: 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm)
Object Number
1955.404
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View

Select Bibliography

S. J. Phillips. Advertisement. Art News 31 (27 May 1933). Art News.. "Lamerie's Carved Silver." Art News 52 (June-Aug.1953):28.. 1953.. Robert Sterling Clark Art Institute. Robert Sterling Clark Art Institute Presents an Exhibition of Silver by Paul de Lamerie. Exhibition catalogue. Williamastown, MA: Robert Sterling Clark Art Institute, 1953. 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. Carver, Beth S., and Eileen M. Casey. Silver by Paul de Lamerie at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1978. 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. Brooke, David S., Rafael Fernandez, and Beth Carver Wees. Three Cheers for the Twenty-Fifth. Exhibition catalogue. 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 S. J. Phillips, London;¹ with Peter Guille, Ltd., New York; sold to Robert Sterling Clark, invoice dated 1 November 1940. 1. The coffeepot was advertised by S. J. Phillips from 27 May 1933 through 23 March 1935 in Art News.