About the Artwork
Centerpiece Strawberry Server and Spoon
ca. 1875
Whiting Manufacturing Company
1866 - 1923
American
Unknown
Silver, gilt
various dimensions
Silver
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor and Edsel Ford Exhibition and Acquisition Fund
1987.36
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Markings
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Marked, in silver, on underside of base: [double headed griffin holding a shield with a W on either side of the words trade and mark] | sterling
Provenance
1987-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA, 64, 2-3 (1988): p. 54 (fig. 30) (ill.).
"American Decorative Arts Acquisitions 1985-2005." Bulletin of the DIA, 81, 1-2 (2007): p. 71.
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Whiting Manufacturing Company, Centerpiece Strawberry Server and Spoon, ca. 1875, silver, gilt. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor and Edsel Ford Exhibition and Acquisition Fund, 1987.36.
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