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John Swift
English, free 1725
Teapot
1735/36

Image Caption

John Swift, Teapot, 1735/36, silver and wood. Clark Art Institute, 1955.634
Medium
silver and wood
Dimensions
Overall: 4 7/16 in. (11.3 cm) spout to handle: 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm) Weight: 15.36 oz (435.5 g) at belly: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm)
Object Number
1955.634
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
On View

Select Bibliography

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

James Smith of Jordan Hill, county Renfrewshire; A. Parker Smith, Esq., sale Christie's, London, 2 May 1956, lot 161; bought S. J. Shrubsole, New York; sold to Robert Sterling Clark, 2 July 1956.