Important Design

Important Design

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Johan Rohde for Georg Jensen

Part of Acorn flatware service

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May 20, 12:30 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

Johan Rohde for Georg Jensen


Part of Acorn flatware service


Designed in 1915

Silver and steel

Comprising one hundred and twenty-seven pieces: twelve dinner forks, twelve dinner spoons, twelve dinner knives, six fish forks, eight fish knives, six seafood forks, twelve cheese knives, twelve dessert forks, eight dessert spoons, twelve dessert knives, eight coffee spoons, eight mocha spoons, one salad set, one fish serving set (three pieces), one sauce spoon, one small cake scoop, one cream spoon, two ice cream spoons and one bottle opener; (some knife blades by a different goldsmith)

Each piece with the maker's mark Georg JENSEN and the Sterling Denmark hallmark

A table spoon and a dessert fork with Swedish hallmarks after 1912

Net weight : 6111 g 

Private collection, Paris

Janet Drucker, Georg Jensen, A tradition of splendid silver, New York, 2001, p. 262-263, 266-267, 269, 271