Pair of Candelabra

Arts of the Americas

1934

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

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Peer Smed
Title: Pair of Candelabra
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.: 1934
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Marked on bottom: STERLING / PEER / SMED / 1934
Dimensions: Each; irregular: 47.3 × 28.6 cm (18 5/8 × 11 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Wesley M. Dixon Jr. and Albert Pick Jr. funds
Reference Number: 1989.516.1-2

Janet Kardon et al., “Craft in the Machine Age, 1920–1945: the History of Twentieth Century American Craft,” (American Craft Museum/H.H. Abrams, 1995) p. 129 (ill.).
Jennifer M. Downs, “ ‘The New Modern Feeling’: A Catalogue of the Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 2 (2001), 57–58, cat. 15.
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), cat. 100.
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 90 (ill.).
Elizabeth McGoey, ed., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), https://publications.artic.edu/americansilver/reader/collection/section/6, cat. 90 (ill.).

New York, American Craft Museum, Craft in the Machine Age, 1920–1945: The History of Twentieth–Century American Craft, Oct. 18, 1995–Feb. 25, 1996, p. 128 (ill.).

Sotheby’s 1989, lot 11 (ill.); Firestone and Parson, Boston, by 1989; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

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