Pitcher

Arts of the Americas

1912–18

Kalo Shop (American, 1900–70)
Chicago and New York

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Kalo Shop (Firm) (Maker)
Title: Pitcher
Place: Chicago (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1912–1918
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Monogram recto, middle-top, applied: "F". Marked bottom, middle, stamped: "STERLING / HAND WROUGHT [in a demilune] / AT / THE KALO SHOPS / CHICAGO / AND / NEW YORK / 653 / G".
Dimensions: 21.3 × 18.5 × 16.8 cm (8 7/16 × 7 5/16 × 6 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Antiquarian Society through Mrs. Nelson Edward Smyth in memory of Nelson Edward Smyth
Reference Number: 1984.1134

Milo M. Naeve, et al., A Decade of Decorative Arts: The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1986), 96–97, cat. 75 (ill.).
Milo M. Naeve, “The Edwardian Era and Patrons of Amerian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago: The Birth of a Tradition,” America’s International Exposition of Fine Art and Antiques (Chicago: The Lakeside Group, 1988), 27 (ill.).
Elyse Zorn Karlin, Jewelry and Metalwork in the Arts and Crafts Tradition, (Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 2004, 2nd ed.), p. 241 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, A Decade of Decorative Arts: The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 12, 1986–Jan. 4, 1987, cat. 75.

With Chimney Hill Antiques and Interior Design, Sharon, CT, by 1984; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1984.

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