About the Artwork
Vase
1918
Arthur J. Stone (Designer) American, 1847-1938 Stone Associates (Manufacturer) American
Silver and gilt
Overall: 10 3/4 × 6 1/2 × 5 3/4 inches (27.3 × 16.5 × 14.6 cm)
Silver
American Art before 1950
Gift of George G. Booth
20.1
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Markings
Inscribed, around neck of vase: If eyes were made for seeing then beauty is its own excuse for being
Stamped, on the bottom: Stone [for the maker] T [for shop foreman Herbert Taylor] Sterling
Provenance
1920-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA, 1, 5 (1920): p. 72 (ill.).
Worcester Art Museum News Bulletin and Calendar, 6, 8 (May 1941).
Arts and Crafts in Detroit, 1906-1907. Exh cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1977, p. 89, no. 59 (ill.).
Chickering, Elenita C. and Sarah Morgan Ross. Arthur J. Stone,1847-1938: Designer and Silversmith. Boston, 1994, pp. 65, 142 (ill.).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Arthur J. Stone; Stone Associates, Vase, 1918, silver and gilt. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of George G. Booth, 20.1.
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