Two-Handled Dish

1902–7

Shreve, Crump and Low (American, founded 1869)
Boston

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

Artist: Shreve, Crump & Low Department Store, Arts and Crafts Shop
Title: Two-Handled Dish
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. 1902–1907
Medium: Silver and turquoise
Inscriptions: Marked on bottom: Shreve, Crump / & Low Co. Marked on bottom: STERLING Marked on bottom: an eagle with extended wings Engraved on side in script: R L A
Dimensions: 5.1 × 30.5 × 10.2 cm (2 1/8 × 12 × 4 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Kubicek
Reference Number: 1982.206
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Sharon Darling and Gale Farr Casterling, Chicago Metalsmiths: An Illustrated History, exh. cat. (Chicago: Chicago Historical Society, 1977), 33, fig. 38 (ill.).
Alan Crawford, C.R. Ashbee (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985) no. 200, 409 (ill.).
Wendy Kaplan, The Art That is Life: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1875–1920 (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1987), 162–3.
Annelies Krekel–Aalberse, Art Nouveau and Art Deco Silver (New York: Abrams, 1989) no. 94, 97–8, 110.
Kurland–Zabar, Reflections: Arts and Crafts Metalwork in England and the United States (New York: Kurland–Zabar, 1990) no. 112, 6 (ill.).
Charles L. Venable, Silver in America, 1840–1940: A Century of Splendor (New York: Abrams, 1994), 266, 351 (ill.).
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. 179.
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 69 (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. 69 (ill.).
Grogan & Co., Boston, MA, Silver, Rugs and Decorative Arts, auction catalogue, October 29, 2023, lot 220, mentioned.

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, “The Art That Is Life”: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1875–1920, Mar. 4–May 31, 1987, 162 (ill.); Los Angeles County Museum, Aug. 16–Nov. 1, 1987; Detroit Institute of Arts, Dec. 9, 1987–Feb. 28, 1988; New York, Cooper Hewitt Museum, Apr. 5–June 26, 1988.
Dallas Museum of Art, A Century of Splendor: Silver in America, 1840 – 1940, Nov. 6, 1994–Jan. 29, 1995, 266, 351 (ill.); Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Mar. 12–May 21, 1995; Milwaukee Museum of Art, June 18–Aug. 13, 1995; Wilmington, Winterthur Museum, Sept. 9, 1995–Jan. 7, 1996.
Art Institute of Chicago, Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago, Nov. 7, 2009–Jan. 31, 2010, cat. 127.

Private Collection, Detroit; sold to Ira Simon (1945-2019), Chicago; with Christie’s, New York; sold to Sander Davidson Antiques, Tulsa, Oklahoma, by 1982; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1982.

Cat. 69 Two-Handled Dish, 1902/7

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