Hot Water Kettle with Stand and Burner

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of the Americas

c. 1900

Gorham Manufacturing Company (American, founded 1831)
Providence, Rhode Island
Retailed by Spaulding & Co.
Chicago

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Gorham Manufacturing Company
Title: Hot Water Kettle with Stand and Burner
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.: c. 1900
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Marked on bottom of kettle and stand: "SPAULDING & CO./CHICAGO/Martele/Gorham marks/950-1000 FINE". Inscribed on bottom of kettle; "CHARLES HENRY ALDRICH/HELEN URANIA ROBERTS/1875 OCT OBER THIRTEENTH 1900.
Dimensions: H.: 27 cm (10 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Thaddeus Dwight Hare, in memory of her parents Mr. Charles Henry Aldrich and Helen Urania Roberts
Reference Number: 1973.551a-c
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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.

Charles Henry Aldrich (1850-1929); given to his wife, Helen Urania Roberts Aldrich, on the occasion of their 25th Anniversary, 1900; to their daughter, Helen Aldrich Hare (Mrs. Thaddeus Dwight Hare) (1886-1981); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1973.

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