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: Engraved on bottom: "Mary Loring / 1752" Impressed mark in a rounded rectangle: "T.Dane"
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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Patricia E. Kane, et al., “Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers” (New Haven: Yale University Press, Distributed by University Press of New England, Hanover and London, 1998), 96 (lll.).
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), 55, 56 (ill.).

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