Property from the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, sold to benefit the Museum Acquisition Fund
An American Silver Jack-in-the-Pulpit Pattern Flatware Service, Peer Smed and Lona P. Schaeffer, Brooklyn, NY, Circa 1930
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January 25, 07:34 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description
comprising:
12 dinner knives, unmarked
8 dinner forks
8 lunch knives
8 lunch forks
12 fish forks
12 dessert forks
12 salad forks
12 cocktail forks
28 teaspoons
8 soup spoons
11 butter spreaders
4 salad servers, in two sizes
1 serving fork
1 serving spoon
3 sauce ladles, in sizes
1 cake server
1 sugar spoon
2 tea strainers
2 waste bowls
2 casters
148 pieces
together with 8 butter spreaders and one matching master butter spreader in a variant pattern by Peer Smed and another similar variant butter spreader by Lona P. Schaeffer
total 158 pieces
241 oz 10 dwt excluding dinner and lunch knives
7511.5 g
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Bequest of Arlene Schnitzer
Lona Schaeffer (1902–1989) was the eldest daughter of Peer Smed and trained in her father's workshop at 176 Johnson Street in Brooklyn, New York. Her style is distinctly redolent of his work, and it is certain that many pieces which bear his mark were wrought by her; their style draws from the weighty, sculptural Danish skonvirke style. She specialized in jewelry and oversize flatware pieces with jack-in-the-pulpit blossoms and calla lilies for ornament. Her pieces were retailed by Shreve, Crump & Low among others. There are less than ten known examples of her hollowware, all softer and with more scalloping and curvature than her father's work. Together, the two made some of the only known Arts & Crafts sterling studio hollowware in the 1930's and 1940's to come out of Brooklyn.
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