Susanna Barker

{{Short description|British silversmith}}

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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.{{cite book|author1=Philippa Glanville|author2=Jennifer Faulds Goldsborough|author3=National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.)|title=Women Silversmiths, 1685-1845: Works from the Collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts|url=https://archive.org/details/womensilversmith0000glan|url-access=registration|year=1990|publisher=Thames and Hudson|isbn=978-0-500-23578-2}} Silversmith Robert Barker, who registered his own mark in 1793, may have been her son.{{Cite web|url=http://www.silversugartongs.com/london/SB%20-%20Susanna%20Barker/Susanna%20Barker.htm|title=Susanna Barker|accessdate=Mar 5, 2019}} Barker specialized in the making of wine labels, and was noted especially for her star-shaped and eye-shaped designs.{{cite book|author=John Salter|title=Wine Labels, 1730-2003: A Worldwide History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jJfyAAAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|isbn=978-1-85149-459-0}}

Three wine labels by Barker, dated to 1792, are owned by the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The Victoria and Albert Museum owns a silver bottle ticket by her, dated to around 1800.{{Cite web|url=http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O122846|title=Bottle ticket | Barker, Susanna | V&A Search the Collections|date=Mar 5, 2019|website=V and A Collections|accessdate=Mar 5, 2019}}