Punch Strainer

Maker: Jonathan Clarke (American, 1705–1770)

1765

American Decorative Arts

On view, 1st floor, American Decorative Arts before 1900
Medium

Silver

Dimensions

1 13/16 × 11 7/8 in. (4.6 × 30.2 cm)
diam.: 4 11/16 in. (11.9 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.1001

Geography

Made in Providence, Rhode Island, made in Newport, Rhode Island

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Tools and Equipment

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
Originally owned by Jabez Bowen, Providence, R.I., and descended through his family; Phillip Flayderman, Boston.; Francis P. Garvan, New York (1930); gift in 1930 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Elise K. Kenney, ed., Handbook of the Collections: Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 106, ill.
  • Harold Newman, An Illustrated Dictionary of Silverware (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1987), 252, ill.
  • Thomas E. Norton, 100 Years of Collecting in America: The Story of Sotheby Parke Bernet (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1984), 112, ill.
  • Charles F. Montgomery and Patricia E. Kane, eds., American Art: 1750–1800 Towards Independence, exh. cat. (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976), 191, fig. 145
  • Graham Hood, American Silver: A History of Style, 1650–1900 (New York: Praeger, 1971), 151–53, fig. 160
  • Martha Gandy Fales, Early American Silver for the Cautious Collector (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1970), 66, fig. 60
  • Kathryn C. Buhler and Graham Hood, American Silver in the Yale University Art Gallery, 2 vols. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1970), vol. 1, p. 283, no. 471, ill.
  • The New England Silversmith, exh. cat. (Procidence, R.I.: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 1965), no. 255
  • Stephen G. C. Ensko, American Silversmiths and Their Marks, 3 (New York: Ensko, Inc., 1948), 102, ill.
  • John Marshall Phillips, Masterpieces of New England Silver, 1650–1800: An Exhibition Held June 18 through September 10, 1939, Gallery of Fine Arts, Yale University (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1939), 23, no. 25
  • Rhode Island Tercentenary Exhibition, exh. cat. (Providence: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 1936), no. 83
  • Anderson Galleries and American Art Association, New York, Colonial Furniture, Silver, and Decorations: The Collection of the Late Philip Flayderman, sale cat. (January 2–4, 1930), no. 387
  • Francis H. Bigelow, Historic Silver of the Colonies and Its Makers (New York: MacMillan Company, 1917), 364 - 65, fig. 262
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Marks

"CLARK" in cartouche on back of each handle

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