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Coffee Service
Gorham Manufacturing Company · c. 1900
Provenance
Ownership history
- Commissioned by Charles Henry Aldrich (1850-1929); given to his wife, Helen Urania Roberts Aldrich (1853-1921), on the occasion of their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, 1900; to their daughter, Mrs. Thaddeus Dwight Hare (1886-1981), Chicago, by 1972; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1972.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Antiques (April 1973) p. 676 (ill.).
- David Hanks, "Two Recent Acquisitions of American Silver" Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 67, 4 (July–August 1973), 13–16 (ill.).
- Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 68 (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. 68 (ill.).
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