Covered Box

Arts of the Americas

c. 1920

Elizabeth E. Copeland
American, 1866–1957
Boston

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Elizabeth E. Copeland
Title: Covered 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.: c. 1920
Medium: Silver, painted enamel, cloisonné, and cabochon stones
Inscriptions: Marked: "EC" (on bottom in applied wire)
Dimensions: 7.6 × 12.7 × 10.2 cm (3 1/4 × 5 1/4 × 4 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Laura S. Matthews Fund
Reference Number: 1982.1291

Annelies Krekel–Aalberse, Art Nouveau and Art Deco Silver (New York: Abrams, 1989), 98, 105, no. 81.
Elyse Zom Karlin, The Arts and Crafts Jewelry Movement in Europe (Schiffer, 1992), ill.
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 337–39, no. 181.
Judith A. Barter, ed., et al., Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago (Chicago, New Haven and London, 1997), 161 (ill.), 191 (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), 26, fig. 2.39.
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), 213 (ill.).

Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum, The Pre–Raphaelite Era, Apr. 12–June 6, 1976, cat. 7–35.
Art Institute of Chicago, Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago, Nov. 7, 2009–Jan. 31, 2010, cat. 25.

Lillian Nassau, Limited, New York City, by 1982; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1982.

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