Cann

1755–85

John Bayly
American, active 1754–1783
Philadelphia

Status: On View, Gallery 167
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: John Bayly
Title: Cann
Place: Philadelphia (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. 1755–1785
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Marked to left and right of handle at rim, in oval: IB Engraved on front in script: The Gift of Abram Kinsey / to Ann Erwin / After the / Evacuation of Philadelphia / by the British / A.D. 1778 Engraved on bottom in script: Robert E. Gray
Dimensions: 12.7 × 13.3 × 8.9 cm (5 × 5 1/4 × 3 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Antiquarian Society
Reference Number: 1949.493
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The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago: A Pictorial Review of Notable Objects in its Collections and Notes on the Society’s Aims and History (Art Institute of Chicago, 1951), no. 51 (ill.).
Meyric R. Rogers, “American Decorative Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Magazine Antiques LXXIV, 1 (July, 1958), 55 (ill.).
K.U. McClinton, Collecting American 19th Century Silver (New York, 1968), 17 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 27 (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. 27 (ill.).

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Exhibition of Philadelphia Silver 1682–1800, Apr. 14–May 27, 1956, cat. 31.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, cat. 202.
Philadelphia, Antiques Show. A Touch of Class: Silver in Social Settings, Apr. 11–17, 1996.

Gift of Abraham Kinsey (or Kintzing) (1727-1805) to Ann (Bristow) Jones Erwin (c. 1706-1791) of Philadelphia; by descent to her daughter Elizabeth Gray Jones (b. 1731); by descent to her grandson, Robert Erwin Gray (1787-1870); by descent in the family of Robert Erwin Gray; with Michael Fiorello, Philadelphia, by 1948; with G. David Thompson by 1949; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.

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