Tankard

Arts of the Americas

1740–74

Attributed to William Hookey, Sr.
American, c. 1728–1812
Newport, Rhode Island

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: William Hookey, Sr. (Silversmith)
Title: Tankard
Place: Newport (Artist's nationality:)
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. 1740–1774
Medium: Silver
Dimensions: 20.6 × 12.4 cm (8 1/8 × 4 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Bowen Blair Decorative Arts Fund
Reference Number: 1976.402
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Milo Naeve, “Colonial Banking to Contemporary Collecting” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 71, 6 (November–December 1977), 1–7 (ill. figs. 1–2).

Jonathan Bassett Nichols (1799-1863), Middlebury, MA and Providence, RI; to George Henry Nichols (1823-1900), Providence, RI and Brooklyn, NY; to George Edward Nichols (1848-1922), Providence, RI and New York, NY; to Frederick Harris Nichols (1872-1953), Greenwich, CT and Brooklyn, NY; to George Harris Nichols (born 1899), Greenwich, CT and Charlottesville, VA; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1976.

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