Tureen

1852

William Gale and Son
American, 1850–58; 1862–66
New York

Status: On View, Gallery 173
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: William Gale & Son
Title: Tureen
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.: 1852
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Marked on bottom: WM GALE & SON / NEW-YORK Marked on bottom with vertical oval with raised initials and vertical lozenge with numerals 1852 below Engraved under one handle: S. F.. ---- M.G.F./1893
Dimensions: 27.9 × 38.1 × 22.9 cm (11 × 15 3/8 × 9 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Antiquarian Society through the Adelaide Ryerson Fund
Reference Number: 1984.53a-b
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Milo M. Naeve, et al., A Decade of Decorative Arts: The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1986), 89–90, cat. 66 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 48 (ill.).
Elizabeth McGoey, ed., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), https://publications.artic.edu/americansilver/reader/collection/section/6, cat. 48 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Junior Museum, Of Little Importance: The Thorne Rooms and Other Great Miniatures, Aug. 24, 1985–Jan. 1, 1988.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Decade of Decorative Arts: The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 12, 1986–Jan. 4, 1987, cat. 66.

Possibly Hamilton Fish (1808-1893), New York, by 1893; by descent to his son Stuyvesant Fish (1851-1923) and daughter-in-law Marian Graves Anthon Fish (1853-1915), New York, 1893. With Constantine Kollitus, New York, by 1984; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1984.

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