"Theta" Candlestick with Separate Bobeche

Arts of the Americas

c. 1904

Robert Riddle Jarvie
American, 1865–1941
The Jarvie Shop
American, c. 1900–1917
Chicago

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artists: Robert Riddle Jarvie , The Jarvie Shop (Manufacturer)
Title: "Theta" Candlestick with Separate Bobeche
Places: Chicago (Object made in), United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date: c. 1904
Medium: Bronze
Inscriptions: Marked bottom: Jarvie (in script) / ϴ (Greek letter theta)
Dimensions: 33.7 × 15.3 × 15.3 cm (13 1/4 × 6 × 6 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Ira Simon
Reference Number: 2022.597a-b

Sharon Darling and Gale Farr Casterling, Chicago Metalsmiths: An Illustrated History, exh. cat. (Chicago: Chicago Historical Society, 1977), 56-7, fig. 72 (ill.).
Janet Kardon, ed., The Ideal Home: 1900-1920, The History of Twentieth-Century American Craft (New York: American Craft Museum, 1993), 194 (ill.).

Ira Simon (1945–2019), Chicago, by 1977 (Darling, 56-7 (ill.) as Ira Simon Collection, copy in object file); bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.

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