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Sugar Urn and Cream Pot

Daniel Van Voorhis · c. 1793

Provenance

Ownership history

With Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, by 1950; with White Elephant Shop, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, 1950; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Milwaukee Art Institute, Traditions of American Silver, Feb. 13–Mar. 19, 1952, cats. 38–39.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, cat. 199 (ill.).

Literature

The Antiquarian Society (Art Institute of Chicago, 1951), no. 58 (ill.).
Meyric R. Rogers, "American Decorative Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago," The Magazine Antiques LXXIV, 1 (July 1958), 55 (ill.).
Katherine McClinton, Collecting American 19th Century Silver, (New York, 1968), 17 (ill.).
Harold Osborne ed, The Oxford Companion to the Decorative Arts (Clarendon Press, 1975) p. 743 (ill.).
Milo Naeve, Classical Presence in American Art (Art Institute 1978) p. 21 (ill.).
Arthur Pulos, American Design Ethic, A History of Industrial Design to 1940 (MIT Press, 1983) p. 43 (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), 112–113, no. 41.
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 39 (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. 39 (ill.).

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