A rare silver centrepiece designed by Paula Straus - image-1
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A rare silver centrepiece designed by Paula Straus

Auction 1244 - overview Cologne
15.05.2024, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Ceramics
Estimate: 2.800 € - 3.000 €
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A rare silver centrepiece designed by Paula Straus

Deep oval vessel with faint martelé on eight spherical supports topped by cast silver rosettes. H 7.5; W 44.2; D 29.5 cm, weight 1,222 g.
Heilbronn, Bruckmann & Söhne, designed by Paula Straus, 1930.

Paula Straus (1894-1943) worked in the studio of the silverware factory Bruckmann & Söhne from 1925 - 33 - and designed models for more than 100 coffee and tea services, candlesticks, boxes, vases and cutlery, which were also produced in series. The artist took part in numerous exhibitions with her designs and was awarded the Grand Prix at the 1929 World Exhibition in Barcelona, among other honours.

Provenance

Private collection, Rhineland.

Literature

For more on Paula Straus and her time at Bruckmann & Söhne, see cat. no. 13420. Silber aus Heilbronn für die Welt, Heilbronn 2001. We encounter the cast rosettes above the spherical feet in various designs by the artist, including parts of her coffee service no. 13420, illustrated in cat. Frauensilber, Karlsruhe 2011, p. 35 ff, cat. Cf. also Monika Sänger (ed.), Paula Straus, Vom Kunsthandwerk zum Industriedesign, Stuttgart 2023, p. 141, with an illustration of a smaller round version of this model.