Loving Cup

1919

Arthur J. Stone
American, born England, 1847–1938
Herbert A. Taylor
American, 1892–1942
Arthur J. Stone Workshop
Gardiner, Maine

Status: On View, Gallery 177
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Arthur J. Stone
Title: Loving Cup
Place: Gardiner (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1914–1924
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Marked on bottom: ASTONE / STERLING / T Engraved on side near base: DARBY DEAR, WE ARE OLD AND GRAY / FIFTY YEARS SINCE OUR WEDDING DAY, SHADOW AND SUN FOR EVERYONE / AS THE YEARS ROLL BY.
Dimensions: H.: 16.5 cm (6 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Antiquarian Society through the Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A. Seipp Fund
Reference Number: 1979.326

Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 83 (ill.).
Elizabeth McGoey, ed., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), https://publications.artic.edu/americansilver/reader/collection/section/6, cat. 83 (ill.).

Library of the Boston Athenaeum, Arthur J. Stone: Handwrought Silver, 1901–1937, August 17–September 30, 1981, cat. 72 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, A Decade of Decorative Arts: The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, November 12, 1986–January 4, 1987, cat. 77 (ill.)
Boston Athenaeum, Arthur Stone: Master Silversmith, Nov. 21, 1994–Jan. 6, 1995; New York, Bard Graduate Center, Mar. 12–May 7, 1995; Williamstown, Clark Art Institute, June 4–July 30, 1995, cat. 144.

Albert Warren Kelsey (1840-1921) and Jeannette Garr Washburn Kelsey (1850-1931; m. 1869), Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, 1919; by descent to their son Albert Kelsey (1870-1942); by descent to his son Albert Wasburn Kelsey (1900-1973), 1942-1973; by descent to his wife, Mrs. Gerald E. Ensign, 1973-79; with Gebelein Silversmiths, Boston, by 1979; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1979.

Cat. 83 Loving Cup, 1919

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