About the Artwork
Covered Dish
ca. 1885
Vansant & Company
1882 - 1886
American
Unknown
Silver
Overall: 5 3/4 × 10 × 6 inches (14.6 × 25.4 × 15.2 cm)
Silver
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Associates of the American Wing Fund
80.95
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Markings
Engraved, in script, on bottom of dish: FAS | From Uncle Henry and Aunt Clara.| March 28th 1883
Punch marks, within diamand shapes: ENGLISH STERLING | 925-1000 | V&Co | [Lion passant]
Provenance
1980-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Christian Herter and the Aesthetic Movement. Washburn Gallery. New York, May 3-31, 1980.
Reif, Rita. New York Times (May 11, 1980).
The Quest for Unity: American Art Between World's Fairs 1876-1893. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Art. Detroit, 1983, cat. 128 (ill.).
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Vansant & Company, Covered Dish, ca. 1885, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Associates of the American Wing Fund, 80.95.
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