Caster

c. 1735

Andrew Tyler (American, c. 1692/93–1741)
Boston

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

Artist: Andrew Tyler
Title: Caster
Place: Boston (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. 1735
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Marked on bottom, in a shield, below foliate motif and above scroll: A T Scratched on bottom: A / DM
Dimensions: 16.2 × 5.7 × 5.7 cm (6 3/8 × 2 1/4 × 2 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. William Y. Hutchinson Fund
Reference Number: 1988.194a-b
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Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1987–88 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1988) p. 23 (ill.).
Patricia E. Kane et al., Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (Yale University Art Gallery, 1998) p. 940.
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Yale University Press, 2016), cat.
Elizabeth McGoey, ed., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), https://publications.artic.edu/americansilver/reader/collection/section/6, cat. 20 (ill.).

With S. J. Shrubsole, Corp., New York, by 1988; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1988.

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