Wine Jug
Charles Frederick Kandler
1739–40
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
34 × 21.3 × 13.9 cm (13 3/8 × 8 3/8 × 5 7/16 in.)
Classification
vessel
Department
Applied Arts of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
184321
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
This jug was originally one of a pair made by the German emigré silversmith Charles Frederick Kandler. It bears the mark FK, which was registered in 1735 to Kandler, who presumably took over a family workshop from a relative. It is possible that he was related to Johann Joachim Kandler, chief modeler at the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory from 1733 to 1775, who designed the Art Institute’s lively and ornamental monkey band sculpture. Whatever the family relationship might have been, the Kandler st...