A Bremen silver sauce boat and ladle - image-1
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Lot 766 Dα

A Bremen silver sauce boat and ladle

Auction 1220 - overview Cologne
19.05.2023, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Faience
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.300 €
Result: 1.260 € (incl. premium)

A Bremen silver sauce boat and ladle

Bulbous vessel with an ebonised wood handle and corresponding ladle. H 14 cm, weight of sauce boat 359 g.
Maker's mark BWKS, Bremer Werkstätten für Kunsthandwerkliche Silberarbeiten; designed by Mogens Björn-Andersen, 1937, produced after 1947.

This sauce boat is based on a design by Mogens Björn-Andersen, which was apparently taken up by various European manufactories.

Provenance

Private collection, Schleswig-Holstein.

Literature

Cf. an identical saucière with merchant's mark of Evald Nielsen, illustrated in cat. Bröhan VI, Metallkunst der Moderne, Leipzig 2001, no. 65. On Björn-Andersen's design, see Funder, Dansk Sølv, Copenhagen 2004, p. 210.