Milk Pot

1784

Paul Revere Jr.
American, 1734–1818
Boston

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

Artist: Paul Revere Jr.
Title: Milk Pot
Place: Boston (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.: 1784
Medium: Silver
Dimensions: 15.9 × 6.4 × 12.4 cm (6 1/4 × 2 1/2 × 4 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Antiquarian Society through the Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A. Seipp Fund
Reference Number: 1960.781
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“New Accessions in Decorative Arts,” The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, Vol. 55 No. 4, (December, 1960), p. 4 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), fig. 9 (ill.) p. 29.

Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, cat. 182, as Creampot.

Grizzelle Eastwicke Apthorp (1708–1796) (m. Charles (1698-1758), 1726), Boston; to her granddaughter, Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Perez Morton (1759–1846), Dorchester, MA, by 1796. Venetia S. Gale (died 1944), Washington, DC; by descent to Mrs. Emiscah (sic) Gale Davis (1881–1964), Washington, DC, before 1960; with James Graham and Sons, New York, by 1960; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1960.

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