The Clark’s American decorative arts collection is housed in the Henry Morris and Elizabeth H. Burrows Gallery and the Lauzon Glass Study Gallery in the Manton Research Center. The Burrows Gallery features early American paintings, furniture, and the Burrows collection of American silver, composed of more than 340 objects including tea and coffee wares, tankards and porringers, objects for personal adornment, church silver, and presentation pieces.

The gallery features prized objects including furniture from the Florence Cluett Chambers collection, a partial Chinese export porcelain dining service made to memorialize George Washington donated by Phoebe Prime Swain, paintings by Gilbert Stuart, Ammi Phillips, and others, as well as several new loans. The suite of rooms feature groupings that look at the role of silver and other materials in early American culture, the development of regional styles of decoration, and social customs such as tea and coffee drinking, dining, and the use of silver for personal adornment.

The installation of the Henry Morris and Elizabeth H. Burrows Gallery and the Lauzon Glass Study Gallery was supported by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.

Maker Unknown, Bottle, Image courtesy Clark Art Institute. Clarkart.edu

Ammi Phillips, Portrait of Harriet Campbell (Detail). Image courtesy Clark Art Institute. Clarkart.edu

John Hull and Robert Sanderson, Sr., Pine Tree Shilling (Detail). Image courtesy Clark Art Institute. Clarkart.edu

Benjamin Burt, Strainer (Detail). Image courtesy Clark Art Institute. Clarkart.edu