
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Cream Pot
Myer Myers · 1765–76
Provenance
Ownership history
- With Jonathan Trace, Putnam Valley, NY, by 1990; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1990.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York, Sept. 14–Dec. 30, 2001, cat. 76 (ill.); Los Angeles, Skirball Cultural Center, Feb. 20–May 26, 2002; Delaware, Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, June 20–Sept. 13, 2002.
Literature
Published references
- Stephen G. C. Ensko, "American Silversmiths and Their Marks III" (New York, 1948) p. 91.
- Jeanette W. Rosenbaum, "Myer Myers, Goldsmith, 1723–1795" (Philadelphia, 1954) p. 111.
- Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1989–90 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1990), p. 41, fig. 25.
- "Important Americana" (Sotheby's, 1991) mentioned in lot 115.
- David Barquist, "Myer Myers: Jeweish Silversmith in Colonial New York" (Yale University Press, 2001) no. 76 (ill.).
- Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 25 (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. 25 (ill.).
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