About This Artwork

English, London

Standing Salt with Cover, 1583/84

Silver gilt
H. 31.1 cm (12 1/4 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Stanley Keith, 1948.71a-b

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, French, English, and American Silver, 1956, cat. 148.

Art Institute of Chicago, Renaissance Decorative Arts from Chicago Collections, 1987, cat. 37.

Publication History

E. Alfred Jones, Illustrated Catalogue of the Collection of Old Plate of J. Pierpont Morgan, Esq. (London, 1908) p. 14.

Meyric R. Rogers, Early Silver from the Morgan Collection, The Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 42, 5 (September 1948), pp. 59-64, here 60, fig, 1.

Antiques, vol. LV, no. 1 (January 1949), p. 65.

Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1952), ill.

Ownership History

Earl of Durham, Lambton Castle, Co. Durham [according to Morgan sale catalogue, 1947, p. 148]; J. P. Morgan, London and New York, by 1908 [See Jones, 1908, p. 14], who purchased it from Percy Lowe, London [according to Morgan sale catalogue, 1947, p. 148]; estate of J. P. Morgan [sold, New York, Parke-Bernet, October 30, 31-November 1, 1947, no. 462]; gift of Mrs. Stanley Keith to museum, 1948 [purchased through Peter Guille, Ltd., NY, for $3,780 according to note in curatorial file].