George Washington Maher, Gorham Manufacturing Company, and others
Pepper Shaker
1911
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- Designer: George Washington Maher
- Manufacturer: Gorham Manufacturing Company
- Retailer: Spaulding & Co.
Pepper Shaker
1911
Physical Qualities
Silver, 4 1/8 × 1 7/8 × 1 7/8 in. (10.5 × 4.8 × 4.8 cm.)
Credit Line
Purchased as the gift of John Dorsey, Baltimore; and Friends of the American Wing Fund
Object Number
2000.381.2
George Washington Maher’s salt dish and pepper shaker for Gorham exhibit a gently hammered surface – prized evidence of hand workmanship. Both are included in Gorham’s “Martelé” (hammered) line of art nouveau silver. Here the evident marks of the hammer are somewhat obscured by whiplash lilies and a stylized monogram with initials EGK, raised on the surface of each piece. A glass liner protected the silver salt dish from its corrosive contents.
Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2000
Inscribed: Engraved monogram "EGK"
Markings: UNDERNEATH, (engraved) 'Martele/(eagle)/(assay stamps)/9584/ZCA/SPAULDING & CO. CHICAGO'
On View at the BMA
