Sale 2439
Amsterdam
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16 November 1999
Price realised
NLG 29,255
Estimate
A Danish silver tazza Maker's mark of Georg Jensen and also designed by Georg Jensen, Copenhagen, also numbered 264 B, after 1945 Of circular form, the circular lightly hammered base rising to a spiraly fluted stem with lobed knobs and grape decoration, the shallow hammered bowl on the underside with trailing vines laden with fruit 31cm. (12in.) high marked on reverse 1934gr.
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Cf. for a similar fruit bowl Janet Drucker, Georg Jensen a tradition of splendid silver, Hong Kong, 1997, p.189, illustrated See illustration
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