Pitcher

1855–63

Cann and Dunn
American, 1855–1860
Retailed by John Cox and Co.
American, active 1817–1863
New York

Status: On View, Gallery 173
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Cann & Dunn
Title: Pitcher
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.: c. 1855–1863
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Marked on bottom: J & I COX Marked on bottom: arm and hammer in oval /COIN (in diamond)/C: &D (in diamond)/N.Y. (in rectangle)
Dimensions: 38.1 × 15.2 × 17.8 cm (15 1/4 × 6 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Kate S. Buckingham
Reference Number: 1938.354
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Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 113–114, no. 89 (ill.).
Judith Barter et al., Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), 87, 114, 228, cat. 89, fig. 8 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 49 (ill.).
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. 49 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine, Nov. 10, 2013–Jan. 27, 2014, cat. 89; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Feb. 22–May 18, 2014 (Chicago only).

Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858-1937), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.

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