AN AMERICAN SILVER BREAD TRAY, A SAUCE LADLE AND SET OF TWELVE DEMI-TASSE SPOONS

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AN AMERICAN SILVER BREAD TRAY, A SAUCE LADLE AND SET OF TWELVE DEMI-TASSE SPOONS
MAKER'S MARK OF GEORG JENSEN INC., 1940-1945

The bread tray oval, with molded rim and two openwork blossom handles, marked on reverse--length over handles 12¾in. (32.4cm.), the ladle with openwork foliate and scroll terminal and scroll and bud join, with J.C.N. engraved on reverse of stem, marked on stem--6¾in. (17.2cm.) long, the spoons each with openwork foliate terminal, marked on stems--4 1/8in. (10.5cm.) long, in fitted case (26oz. 10dwt., 825gr.) (14)

Lot Essay

During the German occupation of Denmark, the Jensen firm was prohibited from exporting to the United States. Mr. Frederik Lunning, a prominent collector and dealer of silver by Georg Jensen who opened the first shop in New York (see Jorgen Moller, Georg Jensen the Danish Silversmith, p. 61), registered the logo and tradename of Georg Jensen Inc. and began manufacturing silver wares in the Jensen style. At the end of World War II, Mr. Lunning stopped manufacturing silver, but George Jensen Inc. maintained its registered name and logo. It was at this time that Georg Jensen of Copenhagen established the "post-1945" mark.