Water Pitcher

1910

Design and fabrication attributed to Peter Berg (American, born Norway, 1885–1959)
Kalo Shop (American, 1900–70)
Park Ridge, Illinois

Status: On View, Gallery 179
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artists: Peter Berg (Designer) , Kalo Shop (Firm) (Maker)
Title: Water Pitcher
Places: Park Ridge (Object made in), United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date: 1910
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Monogram recto, middle, applied: "PO" [Sophia Preston Owsley]. Marked bottom, middle, stamped: "STERLING / HAND BEATEN [in a demilune] / AT /KALO SHOPS / PARK RIDGE / ILLS. / 6863".
Dimensions: 17.8 × 10.2 × 16.5 cm (7 1/8 × 4 3/8 × 6 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Eugene A. Davidson
Reference Number: 1973.345

David Hanks, “Two Recent Acquisitions of American Silver,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 67, no. 4 (July/Aug., 1973): 14–15 (ill.).
Sharon S. Darling and Gail E. Farr, Chicago Metalsmiths: An Illustrated History, exh. cat. (Chicago Historical Society, 1977), cat. 48.
Lisa Phillips and David A. Hanks, High Styles: Twentieth-Century American Design exh. cat. (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1985), 39, fig. 1.38 (ill.).
Anneliese Krekel–Aalberse, Art Nouveau and Art Deco Silver (Harry N. Abrams, 1989), 112, cat. 98.
Judith A. Barter, “The Prairie School and Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 21, no. 2 (1995): 112–133, cat. 25 (ill.)
Thomas K. Maher, The Jarvie Shop: The Candlesticks and Metalwork of Robert R. Jarvie (Turn of the Century Editions, 1997), pl. 17 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 311–312, cat. 161 (ill.).
Carolyn Kelly, The Kalo Shop: A Case Study of Handwrought Silver in the Twentieth Century (master’s thesis, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and Parsons School of Design, 2006), 40, 159 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, ed., Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 158–59, 195, cat. 68, fig. 7 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 193–5, cat. 76 (ill.).
Elizabeth McGoey, ed., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), https://publications.artic.edu/americansilver/reader/collection/section/6, cat. 76 (ill.).

Chicago Historical Society, Chicago Metalsmiths, May 21–Oct. 23, 1977, cat. 48.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, High Styles: Twentieth–Century American Design, Sept. 19, 1985–Feb. 16, 1986, no cat. no.
Art Institute of Chicago, Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago, Nov. 7, 2009–Jan. 31, 2010, cat. 68.

Given to Sophia Preston Owsley (1890-1969), Lisle, IL, on the occasion of her marriage to Sterling Joy Morton (1885-1961), Nov. 2, 1910 [her initials, PO, are on the vessel]; by descent to their daughter, Suzette Morton Davidson (1911-1996; also Mrs. Eugene A. Davidson) by 1973 [incoming receipt, RX9061, Jan. 22, 1973; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1973.

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