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A COVERED AMBER-SET SILVER BUTTER DISH
DESIGNED BY GEORG JENSEN IN 1912, MADE BY GEORG JENSEN SILVERSMITHY, 1925-1932
Circular, with attached circular stand and domed cover chased with leaves and set with four carnelian or amber bosses centering a stylized acorn-form amber finial, marked 44--4 1/4in. high
(gross weight 14 oz.)
DESIGNED BY GEORG JENSEN IN 1912, MADE BY GEORG JENSEN SILVERSMITHY, 1925-1932
Circular, with attached circular stand and domed cover chased with leaves and set with four carnelian or amber bosses centering a stylized acorn-form amber finial, marked 44--4 1/4in. high
(gross weight 14 oz.)
Provenance
Christie's, December 13, 1986, lot 469
Literature
This model is illustrated in Jorgen E.R. Moller, Georg Jensen: The Danish Silversmith (Georg Jensen, 1984), p. 38.