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Tankard
John Burt · c. 1729
Provenance
Ownership history
- John Harrod, Boston, by 1729; given to the New North Church of Christ, Boston, 1729; church dissolved and work sold, 1862. Mrs. Roger Warner, before 1913. Mr. Francis P. Garvin (1875–1937), New York; to the Estate of Francis P. Garvan, 1937; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1943.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute, From Colony to Nation, 1949, cat. 143.
- Milwaukee Art Institute, Tradition of American Silver, 1953, cat. 10.
- The Art Institute, The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, no. 175.
Literature
Published references
- E. A. Jones, The Old Silver of American Churches, (Letchworth, England, 1913), p. 66 (ill.).
- Helen Mitchell Woodruff, "New England Church Tankard," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, XXXVII, (March 1943), ill.
- "The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago: A Pictorial Review of Notable Objects in its Collections" 1951, no. 49 (ill.)
- Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Yale University Press, 2016), fig. 8 (ill.) p. 28.
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