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An American silver fruit bowl, Martelé, Gorham Mfg. Co., Providence, RI, 1904
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Description
- length 16 1/4 in. (41.3cm)
shaped oval with turned-over rim chased with flowers and buds, waved and domed foot, marked on base and coded G over TW
Literature
Larry J. Pristo, Martelé: Gorham's Nouveau Art Silver, p. 314.
Catalogue Note
This bowl was formed by Harold Edward Nock over 50 hours, then chased by Otto Colmetz for 58 hours. The net factory price was set at $168.
Otto Colmetz was born in Australia and trained in New York before joining Gorham in 1892. He was the chaser for the well-known Martelé tankard which decorated the cover of Charles Carpenter's 1982 book on Gorham (now in the Shelton collection); a photo of Colmetz is reproduced in Magnificent, Marvelous Martelé, p. 27. Colmetz left Providence after his son graduated from Brown in 1910, but returned from Attleboro to Gorham in 1922.