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Glass Cooler (Monteith)

Unattributed · c.1685–86

Provenance

Ownership history

Earl of Wilton, Heaton Hall, Manchester, England, by 19023 (see Gardner 1903); J. Pierpont Morgan, New York and London, by 1908 (see Jones 1908); sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, November 1, 1947, lot 471; Art Institute of Chicago, 1947.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Art Institute of Chicago, Chinoiserie from China to Chicago, 1670–1940, March 1–June 1, 2014.
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Cathay Invoked - Chinoiserie - A Celestial Empire in the West, June 10–July 31, 1966, no. 104, pl. XXIX.
Minneaoplis Institute of Arts, French, English, and American Silver, June 9–July 15, 1956, no. 49.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The China Trade and its Influences, April 23–September 21, 1941, fig. 25.
St. James's Court, London, Old Silver-Work, Chiefly English, 1902. pl. LXX, fig. 1.

Literature

Cathay Invoked - Chinoiserie - A Celestial Empire in the West (San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1966), no. 104, pl. XXIX.
Jessie McNab, "Monteiths: English, American, Continental," Antiques vol. LXXXII, no. 2 (August 1962), pp. 156–60, fig. 2.
Vivian J. Scheidemantel, "A Chinoiserie Punch Bowl," The Greater Chicago Antiques Show and Sale (March 1962), p. 19 (ill.).
Kathryn C. Buhler, French, English, And American Silver: a Loan Exhibition In Honor of Russell A. Plimpton (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1956), p. 63, no. 49.
Ruth Bradbury Davidson, "For the Casual Collector: Chinoiserie," Antiques vol. LXI, no. 5 (May 1952), pp. 421–23 (ill.).
"Editors' Attic," Antiques vol. LVII, no. 3 (March 1950), p. 212.
Art Institute of Chicago, "Masterpiece of the Month" (November 1949).
"Editors' Attic: Silver from the Morgan Collection in Chicago," Antiques vol. LV, no. 1 (January 1949).
An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (1948), p. 17 (ill.).
Meyric R. Rogers, "Early Silver from the Morgan Collection," The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin vol. XLIII, no. 5, (September 1948), pp. 59–64, fig. 4.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, "Superb Old English Silver... Property of the Estate of the Late J. P. Morgan," November 1, 1947, p. 163, no. 471 (ill.).
Joseph Downs, "The China Trade and Its Influences," Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art vol. XXXVI, no. 4 (April 1941), pp. 84–95, fig. 2.

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