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
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
