Sauce Boat, Platter, and Ladle

Arts of the Americas

1938–48

Kalo Shop (American, 1900–70)
Chicago

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Kalo Shop (Firm) (Maker)
Title: Sauce Boat, Platter, and Ladle
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.: c. 1938–1948
Medium: Silver
Inscriptions: Marked sauce boat bottom, middle, stamped: "STERLING / HAND WROUGHT [in a demilune] / THE KALO SHOP / CHICAGO / U.S.A. / • / N4L". Marked platter verso, bottom-middle, stamped: "STERLING / HAND WROUGHT [in a demilune] / THE KALO SHOP / CHICAGO / U.S.A. / G881SP". Marked ladle verso, middle-bottom, on handle, stamped: "STERLING KALO N".
Dimensions: Sauce boat: 8.1 × 14 × 14 cm (3 1/4 × 5 9/16 × 5 9/16 in.); Platter: 1.6 × 17.6 × 17.5 cm (11/16 × 6 15/16 × 6 15/16 in.); Ladle: 19.4 × 4.9 × 3.7 cm (7 11/16 × 1 15/16 × 1 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Antiquarian Society through Mrs. Richard M. Bennett
Reference Number: 1978.139a-c

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), 103, cat. 84 (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. 84.

Mrs. I. Jacobson, Chicago, acquired between 1938 and 1940; to her daughter, Susan (Mrs. Richard M.) Bennett, Cambridge, MA and Chicago, by 1978; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1978

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