Urn with Cover

1. Christopher Swiler (born Cumberland County, PA, 1817–died Burlington, IA, 1909) and Mary Mullin Swiler (born Cumberland County, PA, 1818-died Monmouth, IL, 1899); by descent to John W. Swiler (born Cumberland County, PA, 1844-died Burlington, IA, 1909); by descent to George Chandler Swiler; by descent to Mrs. Wesley Hudson Swiler, Burlington, IA; with Walter Willson, Chicago, by 1959; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1959.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute, <em>The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years</em>, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, cat. 193 (ill.).
• Marvin D. Schwartz, "New Wing Presents Design Colonial Period to Present." <em>Antiques and the Arts Weekly</em> (December, 1988), 39 (ill.).

• <em>The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1958–1959</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1959), 13 (ill.).
• <em>The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly</em> (October, 1959), 13 (ill.).
• Ruth Davidson, “In the Museums,” <em>Magazines Antiques</em> (March, 1960), 298 (ill.).
• Malcolm Vaughan, The Connoisseur in America, <em>Connoisseur</em> 145, 585 (May, 1960), 212–13 (ill.).
• Milo M. Naeve, <em>Classical Presence in American Art</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), no. 14 (ill.).
• Michael Clayton and A.G. Grimwade, <em>The Collector’s Dictionary of the Silver and Gold of Great Britain and North America</em> (New York and Cleveland, World Publishing Company, 1985), 308, 663 (ill.).
• Dylan Landis and LeAnn Spencer, “Out of Storage, Back in View,” <em>Chicago Tribune</em>, June 29, 1986, 2, sect. 15, (ill.).
• Marvin D. Schwartz, “New Wing Presents Design, Colonial Period to Present,” <em>Antiques and the Arts Weekly</em> (December, 1988), 38–39 (ill.).
• Morrison Heckscher and Leslie G. Bowman, <em>American Rococo, 1750–1775: Elegance in Ornament</em> (Metropolitan Museum of Art/Abrams, 1992), 129, fig. 31.
• Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 99–100, no. 33.
• Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., <em>American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 31 (ill.).
• Elizabeth McGoey, ed., <em>American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (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. 31 (ill.).

Dish Cross

Art Institute of Chicago

Ladle

Art Institute of Chicago

House of Mystery

Art Institute of Chicago

Two Fence Posts

Art Institute of Chicago

Snowstorm in the Woods

Art Institute of Chicago

Autumn Wind

Art Institute of Chicago

Midsummer in the Alleghenies

Art Institute of Chicago

Autumnal Storm

Art Institute of Chicago

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