AN IMPORTANT DANISH SILVER COFFEE SERVICE

MARK OF GEORG JENSEN, COPENHAGEN, 1908-1914

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AN IMPORTANT DANISH SILVER COFFEE SERVICE
MARK OF GEORG JENSEN, COPENHAGEN, 1908-1914
Comprising a coffee pot, open sugar bowl, and cream jug; each on bracket feet with openwork fans at intervals, the coffee pot with plain ovoid body, the shoulder beaded and chased with leaf and berry clusters and with upturned wire-rimmed spout, with leaf-chased and beaded silver handle, the lobed and domed cover with beaded border and silver bead finial, the cream and sugar bowl each flaring cylindrical with leaf and berry cluster chased borders, with silver leaf chased handles, each marked under base
The coffee pot 10 in. (25.4 cm.) high; 34 oz. (1065 gr.) (3)

Lot Essay

The design for this coffee service reflects Georg Jensen's early training as a silversmith in the workshop of noted Arts and Crafts silversmith Mogens Ballin (1871-1914). In 1901 Jensen joined the Ballin workshop, founded in Copenhagen in 1900, as a journeyman though he was quickly promoted to foreman. Jensen stayed with Ballin until he opened his own shop in 1904, and his earliest designs show Ballin's influence using semiprecious stones and modeling naturalistic forms included stylized fruit, flowers and insects.

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