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Maker's mark W.W
English | Irish
Cream Jug
c. 1750

Image Caption

Maker's mark W.W, Cream Jug, c. 1750, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.97
Medium
silver
Dimensions
4 1/8 x 5 1/8 x 3 5/16 in. (10.5 x 13 x 8.4 cm) Troy weight: 5.65 toz (175.7 g)
Object Number
1955.97
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View

Select Bibliography

Teahan, John. Irish Silver: From the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century. Exhibition catalogue. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1984

Teahan, John. Irish Decorative Arts, 1550–1928. Exhibition catalogue. Dublin: National Museum of Ireland, 1990.

Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.

Provenance

Possibly with Howard & Co., New York; sold to Robert Sterling Clark, 20 January 1928.¹ Although no invoice for this object survives, Clark's diary entry for that date reads: "To Howard's. Bought a silver cream pitcher Irish 1760 about."