Dish Cross

1790–1810

Ephraim Brasher (American, 1744–1810)
New York

Status: On View, Gallery 168
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Ephraim Brasher
Title: Dish Cross
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.: c. 1790–1810
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: two arms marked underneath with "BRASHER" and "N-YORK" in Roman capitals in rectangle.
Dimensions: 8.9 × 32.4 × 15.9 cm (3 1/2 × 12 3/4 × 6 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Antiquarian Society through the Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A. Seipp Fund
Reference Number: 1954.136
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David Hanks, “American Silver at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Magazine Antiques, 98, 3 (September, 1970), 418–22 (ill.).
Valerie Tvrdik, ed., The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago, The First One Hundred Years (Chicago, 1977) 159, cat. 196 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, the First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, p. 159, cat. 196.

With James Graham and Sons, New York, by 1954; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1954.

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