KEM WEBER | "TODAY" VASE
Auction Closed
July 30, 06:21 PM GMT
Estimate
18,000 - 24,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
KEM WEBER
"TODAY" VASE
circa 1928
produced by Friedman Silver Company, Brooklyn, New York
electro-plated nickel silver
impressed TODAY/Kem Weber/DESIGN/J F with the silver mark/E.P.N.S./1E4/D and with the silver and maker's marks
13¼ in. (34 cm) high
3⅝ in. (9.2 cm) diameter
Private Collection, Connecticut, late 1940s
Thence by descent to the present owner
Studio Yearbook of Decorative Arts, 1931, p. 156 (for related models)
Bevis Hillier, The World of Art Deco, New York, 1971, p. 77 (for the model in the collection of Mrs. Kem Weber)
J. Stewart Johnson, American Modern 1925-1940: Design for a New Age, New York, 2000, pp. 2 and 50 (for the model in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Jewel Stern, Modernism in American Silver: 20th-Century Design, New Haven, 2005, pp. 54, 62, 64, 89, 107, 148 n.1 and 345
John Stuart Gordon, A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920-1950, New Haven, 2011, p. 159 (for the model in the John C. Waddell Collection, promised gift to Yale University Art Gallery)
Christopher Long, Kem Weber: Designer and Architect, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2014, pp. 81-83