About the Artwork
Skewer
ca. 1790
George Aiken
1765 - 1832
American
Unknown
Silver
Overall: 8 1/2 inches (21.6 cm)
Silver
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
36.72
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Stamped, below loop: GA
Provenance
1936-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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George Aiken, Skewer, ca. 1790, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 36.72.
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