A DANISH SILVER PITCHER

Details
A DANISH SILVER PITCHER
DESIGNED BY HENNING KOPPEL IN 1952; MAKER'S MARK OF GEORG JENSEN SILVERSMITHY, POST-1952

Of shaped baluster form, with swept handle and oval base, 992, marked under base--11 1/4in. (28.6cm.) high
(45oz. 10dwt., 1412gr.)
Provenance
Billy McCarty-Cooper Collection

Lot Essay

This model is illustrated in Georg Jensen Silversmithy, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1980, no. 88; in Graham Hughes, Modern Silver, Crown Publishers Inc., New York, 1967, p. 19, no. 24; and in Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., Fifty Years of Danish Silver in the Georg Jensen Tradition, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1954, front cover. Another pitcher of this design was sold in these Rooms, June 12, 1993, lot 206.