AN IMPORTANT SILVER AND HARDSTONE SUGAR CASTER DESIGNED BY ANTON ROSEN

MARK OF GEORG JENSEN, COPENHAGEN, 1908

细节

AN IMPORTANT SILVER AND HARDSTONE SUGAR CASTER DESIGNED BY ANTON ROSEN
MARK OF GEORG JENSEN, COPENHAGEN, 1908
Flaring cylindrical, on four pad feet with joins, with carnelian mid-band and applied bifurcated stems, the cover chased with band of tigers beneath sugar canes, the cover with malachite button finial, marked under base and on cover bezel, the caster and cover with Swedish import marks, the cover bezel with French import marks
7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) high; 7 oz. 10 dwt. (234 gr.)

出版

Jorgen Frimand, "Georg Jensen and Architect Anton Rosen," in The Unknown Georg Jensen, Georg Jensen Society, 2004, pp. 39-56, illus. p. 41

Anne Christiansen, Anton Rosen: Architect and Artist, 2003, p.p. 110, 125-126

展览

Museum of Decorative Arts, Copenhagen, 1932

拍品专文

This caster is one of two made by Georg Jensen for the prominent Danish architect and designer, Anton Rosen (1859-1928). The design is based on Rosen's own design for a heating stove of 1901 (illustrated here), and was a personal gift from Jensen to Rosen. Dating to 1908, it is one of the earliest pieces in the Rowler Collection and represents the collaboration between these two important artists. The tiger and sugar cane iconography on the cover refer to this caster's function as a sugar vessel.

The two men first collaborated in 1905 on a pair of stone-set silver spoons designed by Rosen. The spoons are now in the collection the Danish Museum of Decorative Arts. In 1909, the year after this caster was made, Jensen won the commission to design silver for the Palace Hotel in Copenhagen, Rosen's most significant architectural project. This was a highly important commission for the young firm, with the service valued at 100,000 kroner.