Cutlery, for the Wertheim Department Store, Berlin

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Cutlery, for the Wertheim Department Store, Berlin

Descriptive: Wertheim
Germany, circa 1901-1902
Furnishings; Serviceware
Silver, stainless steel, and gilded silver
a) Dinner knife length: 9 3/4 in. (24.77 cm); b) Dinner fork length: 8 5/8 in. (21.91 cm); c) Dinner spoon length: 8 3/4 in. (22.23 cm); d) Fish fork length: 7 7/8 in. (20 cm); e) Fish knife length: 8 1/8 in. (20.64 cm)
Gift of Max Palevsky (M.2002.108.4a-e)
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Kaplan, Wendy; contributions by Crawford, Alan; Joppien, Rüdiger; Kinchin, Juliet; Ogata, Amy F.; Stavenow-Hidemark, Elisabet; Witt-Dörring, Christian.  The Arts & Crafts Movement in Europe & America.  Los Angeles:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2004.
  • Kaplan, Wendy; contributions by Crawford, Alan; Joppien, Rüdiger; Kinchin, Juliet; Ogata, Amy F.; Stavenow-Hidemark, Elisabet; Witt-Dörring, Christian.  The Arts & Crafts Movement in Europe & America.  Los Angeles:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2004.
  • Bradbury, Dominic. Essential Modernism: Design Between the World Wars. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.
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