Cream Pitcher and Sugar Bowl

Arts of the Americas

1927

Peter Müller-Munk (American, born Germany, 1904–1967)
New York

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Peter Müller-Munk
Title: Cream Pitcher and Sugar Bowl
Place: New York (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.: 1927
Medium: Sterling silver, gold, and ebony
Inscriptions: Marked on bottom of each: P (in circle) / PETER MÜLLER-MUNK
Dimensions: Cream pitcher H: H.: 6.2 cm (2 7/16 in.); Sugar bowl H: H.: 7.3 cm (2 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Herbert A. Vance
Reference Number: 2003.9.1-2

Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 86 (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. 86 (ill.).

Historical Design, Inc., New York, by 2003; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2003.

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