Cocktail Shaker

Arts of the Americas

1931

Peer Smed
American, born Denmark, 1878–1943
New York

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Peer Smed
Title: Cocktail Shaker
Place: New York (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.: 1931
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Engraved on bottom of base in capitals: "PEER SMED / 19/31 / STERLING"
Dimensions: 39.3 × 15.9 × 15.9 cm (15 × 6 1/4 × 6 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Quinn E. Delaney; Wesley M. Dixon, Jr. Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 1990.179

Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), 224 (ill.).
Sarah Coffin and Stephen Harrison, The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s, exh. cat. (Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2017), cat. 34.
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. 89–90, fig. 1 (comparative ill.).
Bobbye Tigerman, et al., Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890–1980, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: DelMonico Books•Prestel, 2020), 49, cat. 144 (ill.).

New York, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s, Apr. 7–Aug. 20, 2017; Cleveland Museum of Art, Sept. 30, 2017–Jan. 14, 2018, cat. 34.
Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890–1980, Oct. 14, 2021–Jan. 9, 2022; Oslo, Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Mar. 17–Aug. 7, 2022; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Oct. 9, 2022–Feb. 5, 2023; Milwaukee Art Museum, Mar. 24–July 23, 2023, cat. 21 (Stockholm, Los Angeles, and Milwaukee only).

Sold, Christie’s, New York, March 24, 1990, lot 19 [illustrated in auction sales cat., p. 19], to the Art Institute of Chicago.

Cats. 89–90 Compote, 1933; Candelabra, 1934

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