About This Artwork

Dominick and Haff
American, active 1872-1928
Retailed by Cowell and Hubbard Company
Cleveland, Ohio

Centerpiece, 1872-1875

Silver and etched glass
d. of vase: 28.3 x 30 cm (11 1/8 x 11 13/16 in.)
Marked on inner rim of base: "D. H." (in square beside an empty diamond and circle); "STERLING"/"H 88 x 15" / "THE COWELL & HUBBARD CO."
Laura S. Matthews Fund, 1983.215

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Yonkers, New York, Hudson River Museum, The Sphinx and the Lotus: The Egyptian Movement in American Decorative Arts, 1865–1935, Feb. 4–Apr. 29, 1990, fig. 8.

Dallas Museum of Art, A Century of Splendor: Silver in America, 1840-1940, Nov. 6, 1994-Jan. 29, 1995; traveled to Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Mar.12-May 21, 1995; Milwaukee Museum of Art, June 18-Aug. 13, 1995; Wilmington, Winterthur Museum, Sept. 9, 1995-Jan. 7, 1996.

Publication History

Constantine Kollitus, Connoisseur 213, 855 (May 1983), p. 30 (ill.).

Laura Beach, “The Sphinx and the Lotus: The Egyptian Movement in American Decorative Arts, 1869–1935,” Antiques and The Arts Weekly (Mar. 30, 1990), pp. 1, 102–03 (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), pp. 237-38, no. 113.

Ownership History

Constantine Kollitus, New York City, by 1983; sold to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1983.