Teapot

CC0 Public Domain Designation

1875–90

Whiting Manufacturing Co.
American, 1866–1926
New York

Status: On View, Gallery 273
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Whiting Manufacturing Company
Title: Teapot
Place: New York City (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. 1875–1890
Medium: Silver and ivory
Inscriptions: Marked on bottom: chimera in profile beside W in oval (all enclosed in conforming rectangle) Marked on bottom: STERLING / 51 OF Scratched on bottom: 109/6
Dimensions: 19.1 × 12.7 × 20.3 cm (35 1/2 × 5 1/4 × 8 in.)
Credit Line: Elizabeth R. Vaughan Fund
Reference Number: 1979.322
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Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 57 (ill.).
Brandon K. Ruud in Karen Manchester, et al., “The Silk Road and Beyond: Travel, Trade, and Transformation,” Museum Studies 33,1, Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, 85–6 (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. 57 (ill.).

Glencoe, IL, Chicago Botanic Garden, 1890 … No Little Dreams, June 21–October 28, 1981, no cat.

With I. Freeman & Son, New York, by 1979; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1979.

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