MARK OF KATHERINE PRATT, BOSTON, CIRCA 1930

Katherine Pratt graduated in 1914 from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and in the following year she exhibited silver at the Women's Educational and Industrial Union in Boston. As a result of the exhibition, Pratt was awarded a scholarship to study metalsmithing under George C. Gebelein. She attained considerable success as a metalsmith, working both in her home studio and at the Handicraft Shop. Pratt's silver was typically conservative and often based on colonial examples. In 1931, she was awarded Medallist Craftsman, the highest honor of the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts, and in 1937, she received a gold medal at the Paris Exposition Internationale des arts et des techniques. (See: Meyer, Inspiring Reform, p. 228; Kirkham, Women Designers, p. 228-29; Janet Kardon, ed., The Ideal Home, 1993, p. 247)