Lot Essay
Marie Zimmerman (1878-1972), nationally recognized for her metalwork and jewelry designs, was working in the modernist style as early as the mid-1920s.
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AN AMERICAN SILVER AND ENAMEL COVERED TUREEN
DESIGNED AND MADE BY MARIE ZIMMERMAN, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1925
Of oblong form, the spot-hammered body raised on four openwork scroll feet supported by red-stained rectangular insulators, the cover with later similar incurved oblong insulating finial issuing from a red enamel oblong plaque, struck under base with incuse MZ monogram enclosed inscription MARIE ZIMMERMAN MAKER--9 3/4in. (24.7cm.) long
(gross weight 36 oz.)
DESIGNED AND MADE BY MARIE ZIMMERMAN, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1925
Of oblong form, the spot-hammered body raised on four openwork scroll feet supported by red-stained rectangular insulators, the cover with later similar incurved oblong insulating finial issuing from a red enamel oblong plaque, struck under base with incuse MZ monogram enclosed inscription MARIE ZIMMERMAN MAKER--9 3/4in. (24.7cm.) long
(gross weight 36 oz.)