Cream Pot (part of a set)

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of the Americas

1900

Gorham Manufacturing Company (American, founded 1831)
Providence, Rhode Island

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Gorham Manufacturing Company
Title: Cream Pot (part of a set)
Place: Providence (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.: Made 1900
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Inscribed: "Charles Henry Aldrich/Helen Urania Roberts/1875 October Thirteenth 1900"
Dimensions: 13.3 × 12.7 × 9.5 cm (5 1/4 × 5 × 3 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Thaddeus Dwight Hare, in memory of her father and mother, Mr. Charles Henry Aldrich and Helen Urania Roberts
Reference Number: 1973.769.3
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Two Recent Acquisitions of Silver,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, July–August 1973 (v. 67, no. 4), 12, 14–16 (ill.).
Charles H. Carpenter, Jr., Gorham’s Martele Silver, The Magazine Antiques, December, 1982, v. CXXII, no. 6, 1262–3 (ill.).
Charles H. Carpenter, Jr., Gorham Silver: 1831–1981, New York: Dodd and Mead, 1982, 243 (ill.).
Krekel–Aalberse, Annelies, Art Nouveau and Art Deco SIlver, New York: Abrams, 1989, no. 90, 100–1, 109.

Coral Gables, Florida, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Dec. 1975 – Jan. 1976.
Glencoe, IL, Chicago Botanic Garden, 1890…No Little Dreams, June 21–Oct. 28, 1981, no catalogue.

Gift of Charles Henry Aldrich (1850-1929); given to his wife, Helen Urania Roberts Aldrich (1853-1921), on the occasion of their 25th wedding anniversary (m. October 13, 1875); to their daughter, Helen Aldrich (Mrs Thaddeus Dwight) Hare (1886-1981), Chicago, by 1973; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1973.

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