Sauce Boat

CC0 Public Domain Designation

c. 1745

Jacob Hurd
American, 1702/03–1758
Boston, Masssachusetts

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

Artist: Jacob Hurd
Title: Sauce Boat
Place: Boston (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. 1745
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Marked on bottom, in rectangle: HURD Engraved on one side of body: a Saracen’s head wreathed with a ribbon couped at the shoulders
Dimensions: 11.1 × 20.3 × 11.1 cm (4 3/8 × 8 × 4 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Antiquarian Society
Reference Number: 1954.134
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“Accession of American and Canadian Museums” Art Quarterly 16, 4 (Winter 1954) p. 415.
Meyric R. Rogers, “American Decorative Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Magazine Antiques LXXIV, 1 (July 1958), 55 (ill.).
David A. Hanks, “American Silver at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Magazine Antiques 98, 3 (Sept. 1970), 420, (ill.).
Patricia E. Kane et al., Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998) p. 601.
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 22 (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. 22 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, From Colony to Nation: An Exhibition of American Painting, Silver and Architecture from 1650 to the War of 1812, Apr. 21–June 19, 1949.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Masterpieces of American Silver, Jan. 15–Feb. 14, 1960, cat. 86.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, cat. 177.

With Robert Ensko, New York, by 1954; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1954.

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