Hot Water Kettle with Stand and Burner

CC0 Public Domain Designation

American Art

c. 1900

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

Currently Off View: American Art

Artist: Gorham Manufacturing Company
Title: Hot Water Kettle with Stand and Burner
Origin: Providence
Date: 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

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, Jun 21–Oct 28, 1981, no catalogue.

Gift from Charles Henry Aldrich to Helen Urania Roberts Aldrich on the occasion of their 25th Anniversary, 1900; to their daughter, Mrs. Thaddeus Dwight Hare; gift to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1973.

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