Liberty & Co., Ltd. and Oliver Baker
Tray
1908
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Silver, turquoise, 15 x 7 3/4 x 1/2 in. (38.1 x 19.7 x 1.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Jean and Sidney Silber, Lutherville, Maryland
Object Number
2010.311
Arthur Lasenby Liberty, founder of Liberty & Co., encouraged numerous English arts and crafts designers including Oliver Baker. Starting in the mid-1880s, the firm retailed elegant housewares at a new multi-storey emporium in Regent Street, London. Instrumental in developing art nouveau, the company became so closely identified with this turn-of-the-century style that art nouveau was called “Stile Liberty” in Italy.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2010; Jean and Sidney Silber, Baltimore
AMW Reinstallation 2014
American Wing Rotations 2020
American Wing Rotations 2021
American Wing Rotations 2022
American Wing Rotations 2023
American Wing Rotations 2024
American Wing Rotations 2025
Markings: Underside marked, "L & Co" in triple diamond cartouche (for Liberty & Co), anchor (Birmingham town mark), lion passant, "K" (date letter for 1909)
On View at the BMA
