Salver

c. 1788–90

Joseph Richardson Jr.
American, 1752–1831
Nathaniel Richardson
American, 1754–1827
Philadelphia

Status: On View, Gallery 168
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Joseph Richardson Jr.
Title: Salver
Place: Philadelphia (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. 1788–1790
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Marked three times on bottom, in rectangle: I.NR Bright cut on top in script: MP within a ribbon cartouche
Dimensions: 3.2 × 19.3 cm (1 1/4 × 7 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Alyce and Edwin DeCosta, and Walter E. Heller Foundation
Reference Number: 1983.17
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Martha Gandy Fales, “Early American Silver” (New York: Dutton, 1973), (ill.).
Martha Gandy Fales, “Joseph Richardson and Family: Philadelphia Silversmiths” (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1974), 176 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 114–115, no. 42.
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 36.
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. 36 (ill.).

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Exhibition of Philadelphia Silver: 1682–1800, Apr. 14–May 17, 1956, cat. 454.

Possibly Mary Pemberton (born 1770, m. Anthony Morris [1766-1860], died 1790); or possibly Mary Pemberton (m. Samuel Pleasants, 1762); by descent to Sarah Pleasants Fox (1767-1825), Philadelphia; by descent to Dr. George Fox (1806-1882), Philadelphia; to his wife, Sarah Downing Valentine (Mrs. George Fox) (1825-1888), Philadelphia; given to Mary Valentine Fox (Mrs. William Wayne, Jr.) (1859-1894); by descent to Edith Wayne (Mrs. Thomas Ridgway) (born 1889), Philadelphia; by descent to Arthur Wayne Ridgway, Philadelphia, by 1983; with Frank Schwarz and Son, Philadelphia, 1983; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1983.

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