Clasp

1720–50

Attributed to Henricus Boelen
American, 1697–1755
New York

Status: On View, Gallery 165
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Henricus Boelen
Title: Clasp
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. 1720–1750
Medium: Gold
Inscriptions: initals "C/RE" in Roman c apitals engraved on back; incompletely struck maker's mark of " / ? / B" in oval
Dimensions: 0.6 × 3.2 × 0.4 cm (1/4 × 1 1/4 × 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Charles C. Haffner III
Reference Number: 1984.48
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Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), fig. 2 (ill.), 14.

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