Tongs

Provenance

With Carl N. Williams, New York, NY, by 1980; sold to the Art Institute, 1980.

Tongs

John Murdock

1779–86

Accession Number

61590

Medium

Silver

Dimensions

2 × 15.9 × 6.7 cm (13/16 × 6 1/4 × 2 5/8 in.)

Classification

utensil for serving food

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of the Antiquarian Society through the Mrs. Edwin A. Seipp Fund