Urn with Cover

c. 1770

Ephraim Brasher
American, 1744–1810
New York

Status: On View, Gallery 167
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Ephraim Brasher
Title: Urn with Cover
Place: New York City (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.: c. 1770
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Marked on bottom: BRASHER / BRASHER / NYORK Engraved in script on body within a Rococo surround: JDW
Dimensions: 43.8 × 28.1 × 27.6 cm (17 1/4 × 11 1/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Antiquarian Society
Reference Number: 1959.58a-b
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The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1958–1959 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1959), 13 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly (October, 1959), 13 (ill.).
Ruth Davidson, “In the Museums,” Magazines Antiques (March, 1960), 298 (ill.).
Malcolm Vaughan, The Connoisseur in America, Connoisseur 145, 585 (May, 1960), 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), 308, 663 (ill.).
Dylan Landis and LeAnn Spencer, “Out of Storage, Back in View,” Chicago Tribune, June 29, 1986, 2, sect. 15, (ill.).
Marvin D. Schwartz, “New Wing Presents Design, Colonial Period to Present,” Antiques and the Arts Weekly (December, 1988), 38–39 (ill.).
Morrison Heckscher and Leslie G. Bowman, American Rococo, 1750–1775: Elegance in Ornament (Metropolitan Museum of Art/Abrams, 1992), 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), 99–100, no. 33.
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 31 (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. 31 (ill.).

Art Institute, The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, cat. 193 (ill.).
Marvin D. Schwartz, “New Wing Presents Design Colonial Period to Present.” Antiques and the Arts Weekly (December, 1988), 39 (ill.).

Christopher Swiler (born Cumberland County, PA, 1817–died Burlington, IA, 1909) and Mary Mullin Swiler (born Cumberland County, PA, 1818-died Monmouth, IL, 1899); by descent to John W. Swiler (born Cumberland County, PA, 1844-died Burlington, IA, 1909); by descent to George Chandler Swiler; by descent to Mrs. Wesley Hudson Swiler, Burlington, IA; with Walter Willson, Chicago, by 1959; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1959.

Cat. 31 Covered Urn, c. 1770

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