Collection Earring

Earring

Fox, Native American, Adapter Robert Cruickshank, Maker
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About the Artwork

Earring

ca. 1810

(Adapter) Fox, Native American Robert Cruickshank (Maker) Canadian, active 1774 - 1809

Silver

Overall: 1 3/8 × 1 × 1/8 inches (3.5 × 2.5 × 0.3 cm)

Jewelry

Indigenous Americas

Founders Society Purchase

81.738

Public Domain

Markings

maker's mark, letters in script font: RC [for Robert Cruickshank, Montreal silversmith]

Provenance

Mary Shurtleff (Cross Village, Michigan, USA) ;
purchased by Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA);
1981-present, purchased 1981 by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Robert Cruickshank; Fox, Native American, Earring, ca. 1810, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.738.

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