MARK OF GEORG JENSEN WORKSHOP, PARIS, CIRCA 1925

This caster and another (lot 252) represent two rare examples of silver produced in Georg Jensen's short-lived Paris workshop, circa 1925. Financial and personal reversals impelled Jensen to leave Denmark and begin anew in Paris in 1924. There, he prepared material for the influential 1925 exposition internationale des arts décoratifs modernes, for which he was awarded the Grand Prix. Between late 1925 and the spring of 1926, Jensen fashioned material in his rudimentary Paris workshop, with the assistance of three silversmiths, a goldsmith, and a chaser. Everything from this period is hand-made, and is marked Pièce Paris Unique, as on the present lot, or Paris (lot 252), with Jensen's French maker's mark in the required lozenge shape.

Jensen's Paris workshop was closed in 1926 when he returned to the Copenhagen firm as artistic director, albeit in name only ("Georg Jensen in Paris: 1924-1926" in The Unknown Georg Jensen, Georg Jensen Society, 2004, pp. 61-66).