Lot 104
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A NORWEGIAN SILVER VIKING-SHIP CENTERPIECE

Details
A NORWEGIAN SILVER VIKING-SHIP CENTERPIECE
MAKER'S MARK OF DAVID-ANDERSEN, OSLO, 1906

Of elongated form, the stand with rectangular stepped feet, the crossing fluted supports with claw and mythical animal mask at ends joined by openwork scroll bar with mythical animal heads at each end; the boat with reeded sides and rim with frieze of conjoining viking shields, the bow with mythical animal figurehead of nordic decoration and stern with similarly decorated tail, marked on stand and boat--20 1/2in. (52cm.) long
(60oz. 10dwt.)

Lot Essay

David-Andersen was a leading maker of silver in the Old Nordic taste, along with the firm of Tostrup. A related Viking revival ship-form centerpiece by Tostrup was designed by Torolf Prytz for the Paris Exposition of 1900 and is in the collection of the Oslo Kunstindustrimuseet (illustrated in David McFadden, ed., Scandinavian Modern Design 1880-1980, 1982, fig. 3, p.49 and in Annelies Krekel-Aalberse, ed., Art Nouveau and Art Deco Silver, 1989, fig. 227, p.228). David-Andersen made a pair of Viking revival candelabra designed by Gustav Gaudernack, illustrated in McFadden, op.cit., fig. 5, p. 53.