Caster

CC0 Public Domain Designation

1760–75

John Gardiner
American, 1734–1776
New London, Connecticut

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

Artist: John Gardiner
Title: Caster
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
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. 1760–1775
Medium: Silver
Dimensions: 13.5 × 5.4 × 5.4 cm (5 5/16 × 2 1/8 × 2 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Antiquarian Society
Reference Number: 1954.135
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Jennifer F. Goldsborough, “An Exhibition of New London Silver, 1700–1835,” New London, CT, Lyman Allyn Museum: 1969, cat. 56.
Peter Bohan et al., “Early Connecticut Silver 1700–1840,” (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan, College, 1970), p. 88 (ill.).
Valerie Tvrdik, ed., “The Antiqarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1977, cat. 168, p. 143 (ill.).

Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut, An Exhibition of New London Silver, 1700–1835, Oct. 5–26, 1969, cat. 56 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, cat. 168.

With Robert Ensko, New York, NY, by 1954; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1954.

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