Butter dish

Arts of the Americas

1894

Gorham Manufacturing Company (American, founded 1831)
Providence, Rhode Island

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Gorham Manufacturing Company (Maker)
Title: Butter dish
Place: Providence (Object found 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.: Made 1894
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Marked on bottom: "G/4759/STERLING"
Dimensions: 15.2 × 15.2 cm (6 × 6 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Antiquarian Society through Mrs. Albert D. Williams
Reference Number: 1982.1458
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Milo M. Neave, Lynn Springer Roberts, et. al., A Decade of the Decorative Arts: The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1986, no. 71 (ill.).

Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, A Decade of the Decorative Arts: The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 12, 1986 – Jan. 4, 1987, no. 71 (ill.).

Elizabeth Christie Brown (Mrs. Rufus) Learned (1842-1919) (m. Rufus Frederick Learned, 1868), Natchez, Mississippi; to her daughter, Louise Woodward Learned Metcalf (1871-1952); to her daughter, Louise Learned Metcalf Williams (1901-1993) (b. Natchez, Mississippi, 1901 - d. Illinois, 1993), Lake Forest, IL, by 1982; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1982

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