Sugar dish Maker: Louis Robitaille (American, born Canada 1768)

1797–1804

American Decorative Arts

On view, 1st floor, American Decorative Arts before 1900
Medium

Silver

Dimensions

3 3/4 × 6 3/16 × 3 5/8 in. (9.525 × 15.716 × 9.208 cm)

Credit Line

Josephine Setze Fund for the John Marshall Phillips Collection

Accession Number

2003.104.1a-b

Geography

Made in Sainte Genevieve, Missouri

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Containers

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Provenance
Louis (1745-1815) and Marie (d. 1826) Bolduc (or Bois-le-Duc), Ste. Genevieve, Mo.; by descent in their family; sold ca. 1920 to Mrs. Bernard Hufft (born ca. 1897), Saint Louis; with Ed Smith; sold to Arnold B. Skromme (1917–2009), Moline, Il. Richard D. Rhoda, Seattle; sold to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2003
Bibliography
  • Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007), 41, pl. 13
  • R. W. Stevenson, "A Silver Sugar Bowl With a Story to Tell," New York Times (April 25, 2004),
  • David L. Barquist, "Refinement in the Illinois Country: Louis Robitaille's Sugar Dish," in "Recent Acquisitions 2001–2003," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2004), 58–59, fig. 1
  • "Acquisitions 2003," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2004), 58–67, 133, fig. 1, 4
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

botanical

Marks

"LR ILINOIS LR" struck on underside of bowl

Inscriptions

"BD" engraved on side

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