About This Artwork
Ephraim Brasher
American, 1744-1810
Urn with Cover1765/75
Silver
43.8 x 28.1 x 21.4 cm (17 1/4 x 11 1/16 x 8 7/16 in.)
Stamped on bottom in capitals within a rectangle: "BRASHER / BRASHER / NYORK"
Gift of the Antiquarian Society, 1959.58
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, cat. 193.
Publication History
The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1958-1959 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1959), p. 13 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly (Oct. 1959), p. 13 (ill.).
Ruth Davidson, “In the Museums,” Magazines Antiques (Mar. 1960), p. 298 (ill.).
Malcolm Vaughan, “The Connoisseur in America,” Connoisseur 145, 585 (May 1960), pp. 212–13 (ill.).
Milo M. Naeve, Classical Presence in American Art (Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), no. 14 (ill.).
Michael Clayton and A.G. Grimwade, The Collector’s Dictionary of the Silver and Gold of Great Britain and North America (New York and Cleveland, World Publishing Company, 1985), pp. 308, 663 (ill.).
Dylan Landis and LeAnn Spencer, “Out of Storage, Back in View,” Chicago Tribune, June 29, 1986, p. 2, sect. 15, ill.
Marvin D. Schwartz, “New Wing Presents Design, Colonial Period to Present,” Antiques and The Arts Weekly (Dec. 30, 1988), pp. 38–39 (ill.).
Morrison Heckscher and Leslie G. Bowman, American Rococo, 1750–1775: Elegance in Ornament (Metropolitan Museum of Art/Abrams, 1992), p. 129, fig. 31.
Judith A. Barter et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 99-100, no. 33.
Ownership History
By descent to Mrs. Wesley Hudson Swiller, Burlington, Iowa; Walter Willson, Chicago, by 1959; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1959.