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Coffee Pot

Charles Osborne · 1881–89

Provenance

Ownership history

Auction, United Kingdom, c. 1969; sold to Dora Jane Janson (born Heineberg) (Mrs. Horst W.) (1916-2002), c. 1969; with Lillian Nassau, New York, by 1978; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1978.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Museum of Art, From Slave to Siren: The Victorian Woman and her Jewelry, from Neoclassical to Art Nouveau, May 1971, cat. 92.
Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum, The Pre–Raphaelite Era, 1848–1914, Apr. 12–June 6, 1976, cat. 7–24.
New York Historical Society, Tiffany Silver Exhibition, Mar. 4–June 1, 1980.
Glencoe, Chicago Botanic Garden, 1890....No Little Dreams, June 21–Oct. 28, 1981, no cat.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Silver of Tiffany & Co. 1850–1987, Sept. 9–Nov. 8, 1987, cat. 43.

Literature

Henry Hawley, "Tiffany's Silver in the Japanese Taste" Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (October 1976) p. 243.
Tom Armstrong, "The New Field–McCormick Galleries in the Art Institute of Chicago" Magazine Antiques 134, 4 (October 1988), 822–835 (ill.).
Annelies Krekel–Aalberse, "Art Nouveau and Art Deco Silver" (Abrams, 1989), 99, 105 (ill.)..
John Loring, "Magnificent Tiffany Silver," (Abrams,2001), 176.
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 60 (ill.).
Elizabeth McGoey, ed., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), <a href="https://publications.artic.edu/americansilver/reader/collection/section/6">https://publications.artic.edu/americansilver/reader/collection/section/6</a>, cat. 60 (ill.).

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