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Chafing Dish

John Burt · c. 1730

Provenance

Ownership history

Possibly Jonathan and Miriam Mason (m. 1747), Boston; William Phillips (1737-1772) and Margaret Wendell Phillips (1739-1823); by descent to their son, John Phillips; by descent to John C. Phillips, Cambridge, MA, 1915. With James Graham and Sons, New York, by 1952; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1952.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, French, English, and American Silver, June 9–July 15, 1956, cat. 179.
London, Christie's, American Silver and Art Treasures, Aug. 24–Sept. 24, 1960, cat. 35.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, cat. 176 (ill.).

Literature

Alice Winchester, "Silver Chafing Dishes by John Burt," The Magazine Antiques 45, 5 (May 1954) p. 379, ill.
"American Silver Comes to London," The Connoisseur 146, 587 (Sept. 1960), 30–1, ill.
Kathryn C. Buhler, "American Silver on View in London," The Magazine Antiques, 128, 3 (Sept. 1960) p. 230.
David A. Hanks, "American Silver at The Art Institute of Chicago," The Magazine Antiques 98, 3 (Sept. 1970), 418–22, ill.
Patricia E. Kane, "Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers" (Yale University Art Gallery, 1998) p. 251.
Christie's, New York, "Important Silver," sale cat. January 19, 2012, cited on p. 57, lot. 86.
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 19 (ill.).
Elizabeth McGoey, ed., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), https://publications.artic.edu/americansilver/reader/collection/section/6, cat. 19 (ill.).

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