Necklace and Pair of Earrings

Arts of the Americas

1911–12

Kalo Shop (American, 1900–70)
Chicago or Park Ridge, Illinois

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Kalo Shop (Firm) (Maker)
Title: Necklace and Pair of Earrings
Place: Chicago (Object Probably 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. 1911–1912
Medium: Gold washed silver, amethysts, diamonds, and gold leaf
Inscriptions: Marked necklace verso, bottom-middle, on bottom pendant, stamped: "KALO / STERLING". Marked earring left, middle, on pendant, stamped: "KALO".
Dimensions: Necklace: 29.7 × 13.7 × 0.5 cm (11 11/16 × 5 3/8 × 3/16 in.); Earrings, each: 4.1 × 1.3 × 1.7 cm (1 5/8 × 9/16 × 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Americana Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 1989.448.1-2

Martha Gandy Fales, “Jewelry in America: 1600–1900” (Woodbridge: Suffolk, U.K., 1995), 401, 403 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 77.
Carlieanne Kaufman Erickson, “A Craft of Their Own: Women and Metalworking in the American Crafts Movement in Boston and Chicago” (M.A. thesis, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Smithsonian Institution; and Parsons The New School for Design, 2012), p. 38, fig. 3.5.
Elizabeth McGoey, ed., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), https://publications.artic.edu/americansilver/reader/collection/section/6, cat. 77 (ill.).

Ark Antiques, New Haven, CT, 1989; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

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