Snuff Box

1752

Thomas Dane (American, 1726–1759)
Boston

Status: On View, Gallery 166
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Thomas Dane
Title: Snuff Box
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.: 1747–1757
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Inscribed bottom, middle, engraved: "Mary Loring / 1752"; marked bottom, bottom-middle, stamped: "T.Dane [in a rounded rectangle]"
Dimensions: 0.3 × 7 × 5.1 cm (13/16 × 2 3/4 × 2 in.)
Credit Line: Laura S. Matthews Fund
Reference Number: 1982.996
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Philip H. Hammerslough, American Silver Collected by Philip H. Hammerslough [vol. 1] (Hammerslough, 1958), 60 (ill.).
Patricia E. Kane, et al., Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers (Yale University Press, 1998), 96 (ill.).
Patricia E. Kane, “Chasers, the Chase, and Other Scenes on Boston Rococo-Style Silver,” in New England Silver and Silversmithing, 1620–1815, ed. Jeannine Falino and Gerald W. R. Ward (The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2001), 32, fig. 14 (ill.), https://www.colonialsociety.org/node/1355#rch02.
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 55–56 (ill.).

Mary Loring (1724– ; born Mary Gyles [Giles], also Mrs. Nathaniel Loring), Boston, 1752 [engraving on bottom; Kane, 2001, 32]. Sold, public auction, Philadelphia, to David Firestone, Boston, c. 1975-77 [this and the following according to a conversation between D. Firestone and M. Naeve; notes in curatorial object file]; sold to a private collector; sold to Philip Haas Hammerslough (1894-1978), Hartford, CT; to his son, Philip Haas Hammerslough, Jr. (1920-2013), Hartford, CT and Santa Barbara, CA; with J. Herbert Gebelein (1906–1986), Gebelein Silversmiths, Boston, by 1982 [incoming receipt, RX13669, Aug. 9, 1982; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1982.

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