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

Culture
Period

18th century

Classification
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Provenance

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
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Marks

"CLARK" in cartouche on back of each handle

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