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Tankard
Cornelius Kierstede · 1700–20
Provenance
Ownership history
- Ann Haig, possibly North Carolina; by descent to A(aron) Pennington Whitehead (1908-1994), New York, by 1932; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1946.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Silver Tankard by Cornelius Kierstede, New York, 1710–1720: Masterpiece of the Month, Sept. 1947.
- Art Institute of Chicago, From Colony to Nation: An Exhibition of American Painting, Silver and Architecture from 1650 to the War of 1812, Apr. 21–June 19, 1949, cat. 187 (ill.).
- Kansas City, Nelson–Atkins Museum of Art, Antique American and English Silver, Oct. 1–30, 1950, no cat.
- Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Colonial Silversmiths, Masters and Apprentices, 1956, cat. 195.
- Museum of the City of New York, New York Silversmiths of the Seventeenth Century, Dec. 5, 1962–Feb. 1, 1963, cat. 38.
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, cat. 188.
Literature
Published references
- An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1948), 16 (ill.).
- The Antiquarian Society (Art Institute of Chicago, 1951), no. 50 (ill.).
- A Pictorial Review of Notable Objects in its Collections and Notes on the Society’s Aims and History (Art Institute of Chicago, 1951), cat. 50.
- Helen Comstock, “The Connoisseur in America” Connoisseur Magazine 130 (Oct. 1952), 148.
- Meyeric R. Rogers, “American Decorative Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago,” Magazine Antiques 74 (July 1958), 49–56 (ill.).
- David A. Hanks, “American Silver at The Art Institute of Chicago,” Magazine Antiques 98 (Sept. 1970), 418–22, fig. 4.
- Milo M. Naeve, Classical Presence in American Art (Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), 7 (ill.).
- Milo M. Naeve, “The Classical Presence in American Art,” Magazine Antiques 114 (Sept. 1978), 496–506 (ill.).
- Ed. Francis J. Puig, Michael Confortini, "The American Craftsman and the European Tradition 1620–1820," (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1989) p. 138.
- 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), 54–56, no. 7 (ill.).
- Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 8 (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. 8 (ill.).
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