Lot 325
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'BOHNSCHE TEEKANNE', A TEAPOT, designed by Wolfgang Tümpel, silver, ivory, gold and chrysoprase, raised on a short stepped oval foot, compressed cylindrical body of oval section and with swollen cylindrical slightly curved spout, the short shaped oval neck hinged with chyrisoprase mounted and gold banded cover, with shaped cylindrical handle interrupted by a shaped cylindrical ivory grip, stamped with maker's monogram WT and with German hallmarks of 1888 and with 835 silver mark, 1927

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'BOHNSCHE TEEKANNE', A TEAPOT, designed by Wolfgang Tümpel, silver, ivory, gold and chrysoprase, raised on a short stepped oval foot, compressed cylindrical body of oval section and with swollen cylindrical slightly curved spout, the short shaped oval neck hinged with chyrisoprase mounted and gold banded cover, with shaped cylindrical handle interrupted by a shaped cylindrical ivory grip, stamped with maker's monogram WT and with German hallmarks of 1888 and with 835 silver mark, 1927
15.5 cm high
Literature
Die Metallwerk am Bauhaus, Bauhaus-Arhiv, Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, 1992, p. 69, no. 87, for an illustration of a photograph from 1929 on which the complete service is shown, and no. 88 for the teapot, p. 118, for an illustration of part of the service, pp. 278-279 for an illustration of part of the service and for illustrations of design-drawings for the whole service
The Bauhaus: Masters and Students, Barry Friedman Ltd, New York, 1988, for an illustration of this teapot

Lot Essay

This teapot is part of a tea-service Tümpel designed between 1927 and 1929 in his own workshop in Halle. The service was commissioned by the laywer Dr. Erich Bohn of Breslau in 1927 through mediation of Walter Gropius. The basis for this commission was a e piece of chrysoprase which was in Bohn's possesion.
Originally the service comprised a coffee-pot, a water-kettle, a teacaddy, a choclate box (all now in the Collection of Kunstgewerbesammlung, Bielefeld), a mocha-pot, a creamer and the teapot offered for sale here

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