Lot 41
41
A FINE SILVER COVERED MEAT-DISH WITH FIGURAL BIRD-FORM HANDLE

Details
A FINE SILVER COVERED MEAT-DISH WITH FIGURAL BIRD-FORM HANDLE
DESIGNED BY HARALD NIELSEN CIRCA 1931; MAKER'S MARK OF GEORG JENSEN SILVERSMITHY, 1931-1932

Oval, the domed cover set with a cast handle formed as a stylized bird eating from a spray of berries, the rim step-molded, on an oval dish with plain rim and applied molding, 600S, marked under base
8½in. (21.6cm.) high, 18 3/8in. (46.6cm.) long
(117oz. 10dwt., 3653gr.)

Lot Essay

A similar dish from the William A. McCarty-Cooper collection, was sold in these Rooms January 25, 1992, lot 139.

A covered dish of this model with a stylized fish handle is illustrated in Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., Fifty Years of Danish Silver in the Georg Jensen Tradition, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1954, p. 18.