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Coffeepot

Joseph Richardson, Sr. · c. 1770

Provenance

Ownership history

Joseph (1742-1822) and Mary Burling Smith (born 1753) (m. 1770), Burlington, NJ; by descent to their son, Samuel Joseph Smith (1771-1835); by descent to his cousin, Amelia Smith (died 1857) by 1835; by descent to her great-niece, Jane Maris Morris (born 1831), 1856. With S.J. Shrubsole, New York, by 1984; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1984.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/7484/a-decade-of-decorative-arts-the-antiquarian-society-of-the-art-institute-of-chicago">A Decade of Decorative Arts: The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago</a>, Nov. 12, 1986–Jan. 4, 1987, cat. 58.

Literature

S.J. Shrubsole, The Magazine Antiques 120, no. 69 (July 1981): (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report, 1983–84 (1984): 42 (ill.)..
Art Institute of Chicago, A Record of Sharing: A Supplement to the 1983–84 Annual Report of the Art Institute of Chicago (1984): 42 (ill.).
Milo M. Naeve, et al., A Decade of Decorative Arts: The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1986), 84–85, cat. 58 (ill.).
Tom Armstrong, "The New Field–McCormick Galleries in the Art Institute of Chicago," The Magazine Antiques 134, no. 4 (Oct. 1988), 822–35 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 101–2, cat. 34 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 32 (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. 32 (ill.).

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