Sauce Set

1902–08

Mary Catherine Knight
American, 1875–1956
Made by the Handicraft Shop
American, 1901–c. 1940
Boston

Status: On View, Gallery 177
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Mary Catherine Knight
Title: Sauce Set
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.: c. 1902–1908
Medium: Silver and champlevé enamel
Inscriptions: Each piece marked with a knight on horseback incised in a square with raised letter "K" Engraved on bottom of bowl and plate: D T
Dimensions: Bowl: 5 × 10.5 cm (2 × 4 1/8 in.); Plate: 1.2 × 14 cm (1/2 × 5 1/2 in.); Ladle l: H.: 11.4 cm (4 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Americana Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 1982.205.1-3

Wendy Kaplan and Eileen Boris, The Art that is Life: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1875-1920, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1987), 273, cat. 134.
Elyse Zorn Karlin, The Arts and Crafts Jewelry Movement in Europe (Schiffer, 1992).
Judith Barter, ed., et al., Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), 195, cat. 77.
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 337–339, no. 180.
Pat Kirkham, ed. Women Designers in the U.S.A., 1900–2000 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 229 (ill.).
Carlieanne Kaufman Erickson, “A Craft of Their Own: Women and Metalworking in the American Crafts Movement in Boston and Chicago” (M.A. thesis, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Smithsonian Institution; and Parsons The New School for Design, 2012), p. 30, fig. 2.45.
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 71 (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. 71 (ill.).

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Art That is Life: American Design Reform, 1875–1930, Mar. 4–May 31, 1987; Detroit Institute of Arts, Dec. 9, 1987–Feb. 28, 1988; New York, Cooper–Hewitt Museum, Apr. 5–June 26, 1988, cat. 134.
Art Institute of Chicago, Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago, Nov. 7, 2009–Jan. 31, 2010, cat. 77.

With Gebelein Silversmiths, Boston, by 1982; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1982.

Cat. 71 Sauce Set, 1902/8

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