Exceptional Kalo American sterling silver water pitcher, hand wrought stylized lobed design, MM monogram, inscribed  'January 4, 1917' underfoot. Marked Sterling/ Hand Wrought at The Kalo Shops, Chicago and New York on the bottom, 8.125" tall and approximately 21 ozt.

While the Kalo shops produced many types of beautiful holloware objects, it excelled at making pitchers. Its paneled pitchers are probably the besk known and most desirable, but the shop's other forms were also striking. Some were bulbous, others were tapered or cylindrical. Some had ribs, others smooth sided. Most had square-section or round hollow handles, or thick curved or angled flat-strap handles. There is a great degree of variation among these forms, but they are wonderfully designed and fabricated, and are the essence of Arts & Crafts metalcraft.

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Nate

I believe this was made in Chicago 1912-1916.

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