About This Artwork

Designed by Jean G. Theobald
American, active 1920s-30s
Manufactured by International Silver Company/Wilcox Silver Plate Co.
Meriden, Connecticut

Three-Piece Tea Set with Tray, 1928

Silver-plated nickel silver and Bakelite
8.9 x 21.6 x 20.3 cm (3 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 8 in.)
Marked on underside: "Wilcox S.P. Company [in an arch]/ EPNS/ INTERNATIONAL S. CO.," 7036
Bannerman Foundation Fund; through prior acquisition of Elizabeth R. Vaughan, 1999.680.1-4

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. 39-41, cat. 9.