About This Artwork

Robert Riddle Jarvie
American, 1865-1941

Punch Bowl, Ladle, and Tray, 1911

Silver
Punch bowl: 25.7 x 39.3 cm (10 1/8 x 15 1/2 in.); Ladle: 45.7 cm (18 in.); Tray: d. 52.7 cm (20 3/4 in.)
Embossed on rim: "PRESENTED TO JOHN H. HATTSTAEDT BY THE FACULTY OF THE AMERICAN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ON THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS FOUNDATION . . . 1886-1911"
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Hattstaedt in memory of his father, John J. Hattstaedt, 1974.293a-c

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum, The Pre-Raphaelite Era, 1848–1905, Apr. 12–June 6, 1976, p. 178 (ill.).

Chicago Historical Society, Chicago Metalsmiths, May 21–Oct. 23, 1977, cat. 74.

New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, High Styles: Twentieth–Century American Design, Sept. 19, 1985–Feb. 16, 1986, p. 38, fig. 1.37.

New York, American Craft Museum, "The Ideal Home: 1900-1920," October 21, 1993-February 27, 1993.

Dallas Museum of Art, "A Century of Splendor: Silver in America, 1840-1940," November 6, 1994-January 29, 1995; traveled to Pittsburg, Carnegie Museum of Art, March 12-May 21, 1995; Milwaukee Museum of Art, June 18-August 13, 1995; Wilmington, Winterthur Museum, September 9, 1995-January 7, 1996.

Art Institute of Chicago, "Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago," November 7, 2009-January 31, 2010, cat. 61.

Publication History

David A. Hanks, “Robert R. Jarvie, Chicago Silversmith,” Magazine Antiques 110, 3 (Sept. 1976), pp. 522–27, pl. 3.

Chicago Historical Society, “The Collections,” Chicago History 8,1 (Spring 1979), pp. 34–36 (ill.).

Milo M. Naeve, “The Edwardian Era and Patrons of American Art at The Art Institute of Chicago: The Birth of a Tradition,” America’s International Exposition of Fine Arts and Antiques (Chicago, Lakeside Group, 1988), p. 26, fig. 14.

Annelies Krekel–Aalberse, Art Nouveau and Art Deco Silver (Abrams, 1989), pp. 103, 114, no. 101.

Fine Arts Journal (Dec. 1991), ill.

Elyse Zorn Karlin, The Arts and Crafts Jewelry Movement in Europe (Schiffer, 1992), ill.

Judith A. Barter et al, American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 309-311, no. 160.

Ownership History

John J. Hattstaedt, Chicago, 1911; by descent to Mr. and Mrs. John R. Hattstaedt, 1974; gifted by them to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1974.