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John Saunders
British, active 1612–1700
Apostle Spoon: Saint Peter
1621/22
Image Caption
John Saunders, Apostle Spoon: Saint Peter, 1621/22, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1964.5I
Medium
silver
Dimensions
Overall: 7 1/16 in. (17.9 cm)
Weight: 1.92 oz (54.4 g)
bowl: 1 15/16 in. (4.9 cm)
Object Number
1964.5I
Acquisition
Acquired by the Clark, 1964
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
Helen Comstock.. "The Connoisseur in America." Connoisseur 100 (Dec. 1937):324-29.. 1937.. Peter Guille Ltd. Advertisement. Connoisseur 101, no. 438 (February 1938): xlcii. Art Digest.. "Antiques Exposition to be Held in New York." Art Digest 12 (4/1/38):20.. 1938.. Art News. "The 1938 Antiques Exposition: A Broad Variety Lent by Collectors and Dealers." Art News 36 (April 9, 1938):9-11.. 1938.. Mastai, M.-L. D'Otrange. "The Connoisseur in America." Connoisseur 163 (December 1966): 2769. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-five: Recent Silver Acquisitions. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1966. Anonymous. "Great Silver from Three Centuries: English, Dutch, and American." Antiques 92 (September 1967): 332–35. Time Magazine.. "Crafts: Stirring Up the Past." Time Magazine, Jan. 6, 1967: 76, 79.. 1967.. Victoria Kloss Ball.. Architecture and Interior Design: A Basic History through the Seventeenth Century.. New York: John Wiley & Sons.. 1980.. Harold Newman.. An Illustrated Dictionary of Silverware.. London: Thames and Hudson.. 1987.. Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.
Provenance
With Peter Guille, Ltd., New York, c. 1937–38;¹ with S. J. Shrubsole, Ltd., London; sold to Sterling and Francine Clark Art institute, invoice dated 2 March 1965.
1. The spoons were acquired by Peter Guille, Ltd., New York, by December 1937, when they were the subject of an article by Helen Comstock in Connoisseur 100 (December 1937): 324–26. They were advertised by Peter Guille in Connoisseur 101 (February 1938): xlvii, and exhibited by the same at the April 1938 Antiques Exposition held at the Hotel Commodore in New York City; see "The 1938 Antiques Exposition: A Broad Variety Lent by Collectors and Dealers," Art News 36 (9 April 1938): 9–11, and "Antiques Exposition to be held in New York," Art Digest 12 (1 April 1938): 20.