Antique English Irish Scottish Silver - Types Makers Marks / Book (595 pages)

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ENGLISH IRISH & SCOTTISH SILVER AT THE STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE
by Beth Carver Wees, Hudson Hills Press, NY, 1997.
”The Clark Institute hold one of the finest and largest collections of English Silver outside of England, including many masterpieces of of the silversmith’s art.  The collection was begun in the 1910s by Robert Sterling Clark, one of the heirs to the Singer sewing machine fortune, who bought both luxury items by prominent makers and domestic wares, many which had been owned by the most celebrated patrons of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.  This publication catalogues very object in the collection, from the early sixteenth to the mid-twentieth century, including seventy-six pieces by Paul de Lamerie and many more by other great Huguenot masters.  Chapters are devoted to Beer, Wine, and Punch; Dining; Coffee, Chocolate and Tea; Lighting; and Toilet and Desk.  Detailed entries about some 850 objects provide marks, inscriptions, heraldry, description / construction / condition, comments, provenance, exhibition and publication history,; full and fascinating attention is given to altered and spurious pieces.  All are illustrated in rich duotone, often with details of decoration, marks, coats of arm, etc.  This book is an invaluable reference for scholars, collectors, and lovers of fine silver.”
Oversize / heavy 9.4” x 12.3” hardback with dust cover in  very good condition.  595 pages.
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