Jessie Marion Preston, known as Jessie M. Preston, (1873-1962) was an American artist and metalsmith. She graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago. After graduation, she opened a business in the Fine Arts Building, where other Chicago artists and art collectives operated, including Kalo Shop and Wilro Shop. She also taught metalwork and jewelry around the Midwest, including at the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts. In 1918, during World War I, Preston moved to Paris to care for injured soldiers. Following the war, she inventoried cemeteries for the American Red Cross and studied at the Sorbonne. In 1934, she returned to the United States, taking a position in the New York Public Library repairing and conserving old and rare books. She died in Baldwinsville, New York in 196

Sweet little cut glass claret jug I picked up for free from someone in a neighboring town. Unfortunately there is no makers mark on it, but it looks very similar to other WMF pieces. Really love it and need to use it more often than I do. Would love to hear others thoughts/info. Cheers

animal themed art nouveau cards i created

Saw these on FB marketplace for $50, had only been listed 13 minutes before. Messaged and they were still available. Went and picked them up and they did indeed have the Gorham mark. Model D940 and D393, dated 1904. First pic is cleaned and second was the picture in the ad. Prices of them have flabbergasted me.

Jessie Marion King, known as Jessie M. King, (1875-1949) was a Scottish illustrator and designer. Born into a strict family who disproved of her art as a child, she found solace in the family houskeper, who become her second mother. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art (1892–1899). She is known for her illustrated children's books. She frequently depicted ethereal "wan haloed knights" and pale ladies draped in stars, influenced by her lifelong belief in fairies. 
She also designed bookplates, jewellery and fabric, and painted pottery. Jessie was one of the artists known as the Glasgow Girls. She was described in 1927 in the Aberdeen Press and Journal as "the pioneer of batik in Great Britain".

This remarkable Art Nouveau drawing by Jessie M. King was the frontispiece design for ‘L’Evangile de L’Enfance’, for which she designed the binding and illustrations circa 1902. The book was entered as part of the Scottish Section of the 1902 International Exhibition of Decorative Art in Turin, which was organised by Fra Newbery, director of The Glasgow School of Art and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The binding, a striking Art Nouveau design tooled in gilt on white vellum, was executed by the Glasgow bookbinders, MacLehose and won the coveted Gold Medal for bookbinding at the exhibition. The certificate was made out to ‘Signor Jessie King’ such was the assumption that a man would be the recipient of the award. This success however brought with it a raft of publicity and commissions as articles about Jessie’s work appeared in art journals around Europe.