
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Tea Caddy
Ward, Bartholomew & Trott · c. 1802
Provenance
Ownership history
- With Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, by 1950; with White Elephant Shop, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, 1950; given by the Antiquarian Society through Mrs. Cyrus Hall Adams and Mrs. James C. Hutchins, Jr., to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Milwaukee Art Institute, Traditions of American Silver, Feb. 13–Mar. 19, 1952, cat. 6 (described as WB & T).
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, cat. 200 (ill.).
Literature
Published references
- Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, A Pictorial Review of Notable Objects in its Collections and Notes on the Society's Aims and History (Chicago, 1951) no. 58a.
- Meyric Rogers, "American Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago" Magazine Antiques 74, 1 (July 1958) p. 55.
- Katherine McClinton, Collecting American 19th Century Silver (Scribners, 1968) p. 17.
- 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. 40 (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. 40 (ill.).
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