Compote

Arts of the Americas

1933

Peer Smed
American, born Denmark, 1878–1943
Brooklyn, New York

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Peer Smed
Title: Compote
Place: Brooklyn (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.: 1933
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Marked on bottom: STERLING / PEER / SMED / 1933
Dimensions: 15.2 × 15.2 cm (6 7/8 × 6 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Antiquarian Society through the Mr. and Mrs. James W. Alsdorf Fund
Reference Number: 1986.1061

Jennifer M. Downs, “ ‘The New Modern Feeling’: A Catalogue of the Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 2 (2001), 57–58, cat. 15.
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), cat. 99.
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 89 (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. 89 (ill.).

Catherine Kurland, New York, by 1986; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1986.

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