Art Nouveau Latino Movio Cream Jug

A beautiful hand-made      silver cream jug in superb condition and made by the very rarely found designer silversmith Latino      Movio.  The chased design of fruiting tendrils      on a hammered background is reminiscent of the style produced by Gilbert      Marks - but is a fraction of the price! The jug bears the hallmarks of the London retailers      Johnson, Walker &      Tolhurst Ltd. 

Latino Movio was an assistant to the very highly regarded      silversmith Gilbert Marks. According to John Culme in “The Directory of London      Gold & Silversmiths 1838-1914: “Johnson, Walker & Tolhurst      played an important role in sponsoring the working silversmiths Gilbert      Marks and Latino Movio.” See page 262. And also “at any rate he      (Gilbert Marks) already had two assistants helping him. In spite of the      absence of documentary evidence which would permit the positive      identification of these two co-workers it seems probable that one of them      was Latino Movio whose work is in a style very similar to Mark’s.      Furthermore it is struck with the marks of Johnson, Walker & Tolhurst      or of Holland, Aldwinckle & Slater and dates from around 1905 so that      its’ appearance seems to coincide with the cessation of Marks’s oeuvre      and to represent an attempt by the retailers to continue a popular style      in the absence of its’ foremost practitioner.”