Date
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Marked on bottom: STERLING (followed by three hearts) / JAP
Dimensions
11.4 × 14 cm (4 1/2 × 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Marilyn and Thomas L. Karsten in honor of her parents, Gertrude and Perry S. Herst
Reference Number
1988.203
Extended information about this artwork
Tom McCreight, “John Prip: Master Metalsmith” (Rhode Island School of Design, 1987) p. 15 (ill.).
Milo Naeve, “Twentieth–Century Craft: A Compass for Research” in ‘A Neglected History: 20th–Century American Craft’ (American Craft Museum, 1990), 45–59.
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 95 (ill.)
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