About the Artwork
Sugar Bowl with Cover
ca. 1785
Godfrey Shiving
active 1779 - ca. 1790
American
Unknown
Silver
Overall: 7 1/4 inches (18.4 cm)
Silver
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
58.32
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Engraved, in a cartouche: R C I
Stamped, three times, in a rectangle: G S
Provenance
1958-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Godfrey Shiving, Sugar Bowl with Cover, ca. 1785, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 58.32.
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