The Kalo Shop

Tray, circa 1915-1930
Silver. 
2 x 81 x 37 cm 4700 grams (166 ounces)
Executed by The Kalo Shop, Chicago. Underside impressed STERLING/HAND WROUGHT/AT/THE KALO SHOP/W 2 8 9.

Footnotes

Exhibited
'The Seawolf Collection, a personal touch, late 19th- and 20th-century silver', Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 28 February-20 April 2003
Design Museum, Ghent, Belgium, 15 June-15 September 2003
Museet PA Koldinghus, Kolding, Denmark, 21 February-30 May 2004
Pinakothek der Moderne, Design section, Munich, Germany, Autumn 2004


Literature
Veena Duncker, Lynn Springer Roberts, Reinhard Sanger, Eric Turner, and Mienke Simon Thomas, The Seawolf Collection, a personal touch, late 19th- and 20th-century silver, exh. cat., Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2003, illustrated p. 242 ("A photograph does not do justice to the monumental quality of this tray.")


The condition is quite astonishing. Evidence of the lightest use to the base of the tray. 


Viewing in Windsor Castle is welcome.