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Arts
and Crafts vases are some of the most beautiful silver forms, with extensive
variation in design, from slender bud vases to massive vessels capable of
holding large floral arrangements. Kalo vases are among the finest examples in
this category, and rank with Kalo pitchers and candlesticks as the apogee of
the silversmith's art.
Some
Kalo vases exhibit the Shop's familiar feminine, lobed
design, while others are architectural, or delicate,
or modern to the point of looking contemporary. All of
them -- even the tiny bud vases below -- were fashioned
with great skill. Most showcase the Kalo Shop's wonderful planishing, and the
early pieces such as these and this
display traditional Arts & Crafts or Prairie design, with angular strap
handles and simple geometric shapes.
These
vases are prized both for their elegant demonstration of metalcraft at its
best, and as timeless, genuinely utilitarian objects that echo Clara Welles'
motto: "Beautiful, Useful, Enduring."
(Click on a thumbnail below
to see a larger photo.)
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Large (13-1/4") vase, with flat bottom, lower bulge,
sides tapering and flaring at ruffled and fluted rim, applied wire at rim
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Vases, pair (2), trophy form, with low wide waist tapering
down to flat bottom and up to a slightly flared top, angled strap handles
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Vase, cylindrical, with flat strap handle that creates a horizontal
plane with the rim, then angles down and gracefully curves to meet the body
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Vase, small cylindrical with bulge then narrowing at top,
applied wire rim
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Bud vase, small, on round base with a low bulge in the body
and slight flare at the top
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Bud vase, broad pedestal base with narrow stem supporting a
tube-like vessel that flares outward at the top
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Bud vase, broad pedestal base with narrow stem supporting a
tube-like vessel
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Bud vase on broad
base with flaring, trumpet-form body and ruffled rim with applied wire
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Bud vase on broad base with flaring, trumpet-form body and
ruffled rim with applied wire
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Bud vase, inverted trumpet form, with flat bottom, tapering
neck, slightly flared top with wire applied to rim
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Very large (14-1/2") trumpet vase, broad circular base
tapering to a slender trumpet form, flaring at rim
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Beaker form vase, nice paneled form, hammered with applied
wire on rim, applied CHI mono over heavy applied arrowhead
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Vase, commemorative, cup-form, round, with elaborate
repousse tree and "Old Elm" chased into side
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Small trumpet vases, pair (2), with slender tapering stems on
small round feet, and three-lobed spreading floriform tops
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