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Article: Continental and English porcelain in the Clark collection. (Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute)
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- The Magazine Antiques
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- October 1, 1997
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Robert Sterling Clark's decidedly idiosyncratic porcelain collection is one of the surprising treasures of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Although largely limited to cups and saucers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, it reveals the refinement and discerning judgment characteristic of the collector. Surviving diaries and invoices document Clark's acquisition of ceramics as early as 1926, when he noted: "To Cooper's. We bought 3 pieces of Angouleme porcelain."(1) A ten-piece Angouleme coffee service was purchased in January 1927 for $300, and "a greyhound in biscuit de Sevres 1815 about" for $125 in November of that year.(2)
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Article: Silver in the Clark Art Institute. (Sterling and Francine ...
The Magazine Antiques;
October 1, 1997 ;
700+ words
... ... even by that date. Clark's earliest silver purchases were made about 1913 from the London firm of Crichton Brothers, whose New York City shop would later supply much of his collection.(1) He was partial to Crichton's large stock of Huguenot silver ...
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