Salver by Joseph Richardson Jr.
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Salver

Joseph Richardson Jr. · c. 1788–90

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Possibly Mary Pemberton (born 1770, m. Anthony Morris [1766-1860], died 1790); or possibly Mary Pemberton (m. Samuel Pleasants, 1762); by descent to Sarah Pleasants Fox (1767-1825), Philadelphia; by descent to Dr. George Fox (1806-1882), Philadelphia; to his wife, Sarah Downing Valentine (Mrs. George Fox) (1825-1888), Philadelphia; given to Mary Valentine Fox (Mrs. William Wayne, Jr.) (1859-1894); by descent to Edith Wayne (Mrs. Thomas Ridgway) (born 1889), Philadelphia; by descent to Arthur Wayne Ridgway, Philadelphia, by 1983; with Frank Schwarz and Son, Philadelphia, 1983; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1983.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, Exhibition of Philadelphia Silver: 1682–1800, Apr. 14–May 17, 1956, cat. 454.

Literature

Published references

  • Martha Gandy Fales, "Early American Silver" (Dutton, 1973), (ill.).
  • Martha Gandy Fales, "Joseph Richardson and Family: Philadelphia Silversmiths" (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1974), 176 (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), 114–115, no. 42.
  • Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 36.
  • 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. 36 (ill.).

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