Cutlery set, designed for the Wertheim Department Store, Berlin

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Cutlery set, designed for the Wertheim Department Store, Berlin

Descriptive: Wertheim
Germany, 1902
Furnishings; Serviceware
Silver, stainless steel, gilded silver
a) Dessert knife: 8 1/8 x 3/4 in. (20.64 x 1.91 cm); b) Dessert fork: 7 x 3/4 in. (17.78 x 1.91 cm); c) Teaspoon: 5 3/4 x 1 1/8 in. (14.61 x 2.86 cm); d) Mocha spoon: 4 1/2 x 7/8 in. (11.43 x 2.22 cm)
Gift of Max Palevsky (M.2003.16.1a-d)
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Bradbury, Dominic. Essential Modernism: Design Between the World Wars. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.