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Eliel Saarinen
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description
- Eliel Saarinen
- An Important and Rare Centerpiece
- impressed with cipher, STERLING/SD72 and BY SAARINEN
- sterling silver
Provenance
Private Collection, circa 1940
Thence by descent to the present owner
Thence by descent to the present owner
Literature
The Architect and the Industrial Arts: An Exhibition of Contemporary American Design, New York, 1929, p. 61 and pl. 8
House & Garden, December 1931, p. 67
J. Stewart Johnson, American Modern 1925-1940: Design for a New Age, New York, 2000, p. 45 (for the fifteen-inch model)
Dora Apel, ed., Cranbook Art Museum: 100 Treasures, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 2004, p. 98 (for a photograph of the The Architect and the Industrial Arts exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art showing the centerpiece)
Jewel Stern, Modernism in American Silver, New Haven, 2005, p. 105 (for the fifteen-inch model)
John Stuart Gordon, A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920-1950, New Haven, 2011, p. 288 (for the fifteen-inch model)
House & Garden, December 1931, p. 67
J. Stewart Johnson, American Modern 1925-1940: Design for a New Age, New York, 2000, p. 45 (for the fifteen-inch model)
Dora Apel, ed., Cranbook Art Museum: 100 Treasures, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 2004, p. 98 (for a photograph of the The Architect and the Industrial Arts exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art showing the centerpiece)
Jewel Stern, Modernism in American Silver, New Haven, 2005, p. 105 (for the fifteen-inch model)
John Stuart Gordon, A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920-1950, New Haven, 2011, p. 288 (for the fifteen-inch model)
Condition
Overall in excellent condition. With a few minute scratches and nicks which are consistent with age and use. Some spotting to interior of bowl.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
For the eleventh installation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition series entitled The Architect and the Industrial Arts in 1929, Eliel Saarinen designed a dining room, the focal point of which was a large prototype silver bowl surrounded by four place settings. The present lot was part of a limited commercial design based on the bowl. The model was offered in three sizes of eleven, thirteen and fifteen inch diameters. Only four other examples of this bowl are presently known to exist, including a thirteen-inch example in the Cranbrook Museum of Art, a fifteen-inch example formerly in the collection of John C. Waddell and now in collection of the Yale University Art Gallery, and an eleven-inch example sold at Sotheby's New York, December 17, 2009, lot 259.