Oyster Plate by Theodore R. Davis
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Oyster Plate

Theodore R. Davis · Designed 1879; produced 1880–87

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Private Collection, Montana, about 1969; bought by the Art Institute of Chicago from auction of Important American Furniture, Folk Art & Prints, Christie's, New York, N.Y., September 30, 2009 (lot 111).

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/1399/art-and-appetite-american-painting-culture-and-cuisine"><em>Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine</em></a>, Nov. 10, 2013–Jan. 27, 2014, cat. 92; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Feb. 22–May 18, 2014 (Chicago only).

Literature

Published references

  • Annual Report (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009–10) p. 13.
  • Judith Barter et al., <em>Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), 28–29, 229, cat. 92, fig. 13 (ill.).

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