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Robert Peake
English, free 1680
Monteith
1701/2
When filled with ice water, this unusually large silver bowl could be used to cool wineglasses by hooking their bases over the bowl's scalloped rim. Alternatively, the rim could be removed and the bowl could be used as a container for punch. This monteith’s size suggests that its original owner was both wealthy and sociable. The word “monteith” may derive from a Scottish nobleman called Monteigh, who was known to wear a cloak with a scalloped edge.
Image Caption
Robert Peake, Monteith, 1701/2, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.521
Medium
silver
Dimensions
12 7/16 x 19 3/4 x 18 11/16 in. (31.6 x 50.2 x 47.5 cm)
Base diameter: 10 15/16 in. (27.8 cm)
Troy weight: 224.5 toz (6982.7 g)
Scratch weight (228 = 3): 228.15 toz (7096.3 g)
Object Number
1955.521
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
On View
Select Bibliography
London, South Kensington Museum. Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Works of Art. Exh.cat. ed. by J. C. Robinson.. 1863.. Gardner, Starkie John. Old Silver-Work, Chiefly English, from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries Exhibited in 1902 at St. James's Court. Exhibition catalogue. London: B. T. Batsford, 1903. Gardner, Starkie John. Old Silver-Work, Chiefly English, from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries Exhibited in 1902 at St. James's Court. Exhibition catalogue. London: B. T. Batsford, 1903. Gardner, John Starkie. "Silver Plate in the Collection of the Duke of Newcastle at Clumber." Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 8, no. 32 (November 1905): 12027. Christie Manson & Woods. Advertisement. Art News 35, no, 31 (1 May 1937). 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. Georgina E. Lee.. British Silver Monteith Bowls Including American and European Examples.. Byfleet, Surrey: Manor House Press.. 1978.. 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. Wees, Beth Carver. "Silver in the Clark Art Institute." The Magazine Antiques 62, no. 4 (October 1997): 536–45.
Provenance
Thomas Miller Whitehead, Esq. (by June 1862); Henry Pelham Archibald Douglas Pelham-Clinton, seventh duke of Newcastle, Clumber, Nottinghamshire; by descent to the Hon. the Earl of Lincoln, sale Christie's, London, 7 June 1937, lot 57; bought Lamb and Castle, London; with Peter Guille, New York; sold to Robert Sterling Clark, invoice dated 1 March 1939.¹
1. According to Clark’s diary, the purchase took place on 23 February 1939: “F. came with me to Guille’s—Approved of Monteith Bowl Duke of Newcastle.—Bought it.” Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute archives.