Lot 55
  • 55

A German Art Nouveau silver centerpiece, Gabriel Hermeling, Cologne, circa 1905

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • marked on base rim and numbered 128047
  • Silver
  • height 20in by length 26 1/2 in
  • 51 by 67.3cm
the openwork whiplash base enclosing two dishes and mounted wiht six flowerheads enclosing busts of children, each with a pendant trophy below of music (piano and violin), painting, housekeeping, cooking, and flowers, the whole topped by a figure of a maiden bearing a laurel crown

Condition

engraving presumably removed from cartouches, otherwise good, nicely modeled and impressively pierced base
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