About This Artwork

Margret Craver
American, 1907-2010

Bonbonnière, 1938

Silver and cloissoné
(5.7 x 13.4 cm) 2 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.
Marked on bottom in Roman capitals in rectangle "Sterling"; maker's mark in capital letter within a six-petal shape: "C"
Americana Fund, 1985.516

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Jennifer M. Downs, “The New Modern Feeling’: A Catalogue of the Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 2 (2001), pp. 66-67, no. 18.

Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 115.

Ownership History

The artist, from 1938 to 1985; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1985.