About This Artwork
Covered Compote1926
Silver and ivory
H. 31.8 cm (12 1/2 in.)
Marked on base: "GORHAM [picture of lion] [picture of anchor] ["G" in calligraphy] STERLING Y F S [picture of sailboat]
Restricted gift of the Antiquarian Society, 1984.1172
American Art
Not on Display
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. 26-27, cat. 3.
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. 53.
Ownership History
Kathy Kurland, New York, by 1984; sold by her to the Art Institute, 1984.