Fish Server

c. 1815

Jean-Simon Chaudron
American, born France, 1758–1846
Philadelphia

Status: On View, Gallery 169
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Jean-Simon Chaudron
Title: Fish Server
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. 1815
Medium: Silver and ivory
Inscriptions: Marked on bottom of blade: CHAUDRON
Dimensions: 3.8 × 27.9 × 7.6 cm (1 1/2 × 11 3/8 × 3 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Antiquarian Society
Reference Number: 1970.2
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Ruth Davidson, “Museum Accessions,” Antiques, 100, 3 (September, 1971), p. 332 (ill.).
Milo M. Naeve, The Classical Presence in American Art (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1975) p. 741 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 41 (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. 41 (ill.).

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art, Apr. 11–Oct. 10, 1976, cat. 206 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, cat. 207 (ill).

Private collection, New York, by 1969; sold by Parke-Bernet, 1969, lot 116; with Robert Trump & Company, Philadelphia, by 1970; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1970.

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