Important 20th Century Design

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Lot 693
  • 693

Frederick Carder

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Description

  • Frederick Carder
  • Flatware Service
  • silver-plated metal and glass 
comprising dinner fork, soup spoon, dessert knife, and butter knife

Literature

''Fashions in Transparency: Modern Crystal Turns from Elaborate Forms of Yesterday to Clear Flowing Shapes which Dramatize the Qualities of Glass Itself,'' Arts and Decoration, August 1934, p. 20 (for a period photograph showing the flatware service, the design attributed to Walter Dorwin Teague)
Karen Davies, At Home in America: Modern Decorative Arts, 1925 to the Depression, New Haven, 1983, p. 30 (for a fork, spoon and butter knife in the collection of The Rockwell Museum, Corning, New York)
J. Stewart Johnson, American Modern, 1925-1940: Design for a New Age, New York, 2000, p. 96 (for a fork and spoon in the collection of John C. Waddell)