Goblet

1852

William Gale & Son (American, 1850–58; 1862–66)
New York

Status: On View, Gallery 173
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: William Gale & Son (Maker)
Title: Goblet
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.: 1852
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: marks on bottom of cup: "New York/Wm. Gale & Son", in Roman capitals; lozenge with date "1852" and oval with "G&S".
Dimensions: 10.2 × 7.6 × 7.6 cm (4 3/4 × 3 × 3 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Antiquarian Society through the Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Hunter, III Fund
Reference Number: 1988.63
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Judith Barter et al., Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), 87–88, 228, cat. 95, fig. 7 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine, Nov. 10, 2013–Jan. 27, 2014, cat. 87; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Feb. 22–May 18, 2014 (Chicago only).

Gift of his grandmother, “E. M. B.(rown)” to James Brown Potter, 1852 (likely his birth year) (m. Cora Urquhart Brown-Potter, 1877, from whom divorced 1900); with I. Freeman and Son, New York, NY by 1988; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1988.

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