Susanna Barker
Susanna (sometimes Susannah) Barker was an English silversmith.
Classified as a smallworker, Barker worked in London, registering her date mark on 25 June 1778. A second mark was registered on 12 August 1789, with a third following on 26 August the same year. At one time she worked out of a shop at 16 Gutter Lane; from 1790 until 1793 she is recorded as working as a goldsmith at 29 Gutter Lane.[1] Silversmith Robert Barker, who registered his own mark in 1793, may have been her son.[2] Barker specialized in the making of wine labels,[1] and was noted especially for her star-shaped and eye-shaped designs.[3]
Three wine labels by Barker, dated to 1792, are owned by the National Museum of Women in the Arts.[1] The Victoria and Albert Museum owns a silver bottle ticket by her, dated to around 1800.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Philippa Glanville; Jennifer Faulds Goldsborough; National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.) (1990). Women Silversmiths, 1685-1845: Works from the Collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Thames and Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-23578-2.
- ^ "Susanna Barker". Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ John Salter (2004). Wine Labels, 1730-2003: A Worldwide History. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 978-1-85149-459-0.
- ^ "Bottle ticket | Barker, Susanna | V&A Search the Collections". V and A Collections. 5 March 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
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