Pair of Shell-Shaped Dishes

Arts of the Americas

1887

Gorham Manufacturing Company (American, founded 1831)
Providence, Rhode Island

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Gorham Manufacturing Company (Maker)
Title: Pair of Shell-Shaped Dishes
Place: Providence (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1887
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: marked on bottom
Dimensions: Each: 3.5 × 12.4 × 6 cm (1 3/8 × 4 3/4 × 2 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Virginia Heywood Colman Becker in memory of Jeanette Heywood Colman
Reference Number: 1988.447.1-2
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Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 65 (ill.).
Elizabeth McGoey, ed., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), https://publications.artic.edu/americansilver/reader/collection/section/6, cat. 65 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine, Nov. 10, 2013–Jan. 27, 2014; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Feb. 22–May 18, 2014, cat. 91 (Chicago only).

With Firestone and Parson, Boston, by 1988; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1988.

Cat. 65 Shell-Shaped Dishes, 1887

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