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Lot 725 D ‡ α

A silver tea and coffee service by Paula Straus

Auction 1253 - overview Cologne
15.11.2024, 10:00 - Silver
Estimate: 10.000 € - 14.000 €
Result: 11.340 € (incl. premium)
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A silver tea and coffee service by Paula Straus

Model no. 13024. Consisting of a coffee pot, teapot, milk jug and sugar bowl. The finials and the insulating rings of the handles of ivory. H coffee pot 18.5 cm, weight vessels 1,695 g.
Heilbronn, marks of Peter Bruckmann & Söhne, designed by Paula Straus 1926, produced around 1930.

Paula Straus (1894-1943) worked in the studio of the Bruckmann & Söhne silverware factory from 1925 to 1933 and designed more than 100 coffee and tea sets, candlesticks, boxes, vases and cutlery sets, many of which were also mass produced. The artist took part in numerous exhibitions with her designs and was awarded, among other things, the Grand Prix at the 1929 World Exhibition in Barcelona.
Marketing authorisation DE-K-240919-469 for the EU internal market has been obtained.

Provenance

Private collection, Berlin.

Literature

For more on Paula Straus, see cat. Frauensilber, Karlsruhe 2011, p. 25 ff. See also an identical service in the collection of the Württemberg State Museum in Stuttgart, shown in Monika Singer (ed.), Paula Straus, Vom Kunsthandwerk zum Industriedesign, Stuttgart 2023, p. 113.