Pin

Arts of the Americas

1920–29

John Pontus Petterson
American, 1884–1949
Chicago

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: John Pontus Petterson (Maker)
Title: Pin
Place: Chicago (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. 1920–1929
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Marked on reverse: "J.P. PETTERSON/HAND MADE STERLING"
Dimensions: 4.4 × 4.4 cm (2 3/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Americana Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 1987.270

Janet Kardon, ed., “Craft in the Machine Age: 1920–1945,” New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., and American Craft Museum, 1995, 124–35 (ill.).

With Ark Antiques, New Haven, CT, by 1987; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1987.

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