Deutscher Werkbund to Bauhaus: An Important Collection of German Design

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Lot 50
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Walter Scherf & Co.

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Walter Scherf & Co.
  • Vase
  • stamped OSIRIS/ 1037/ ISIS/  and with the mark of the Nürnberger Handwerkunst, Bayerisches Gewerbemuseum and 22
  • molded pewter and cut glass

Literature

Peter-Klaus Schuster, Peter Behrens und Nürnberg, Nürnberg, 1980, pp. 169-171 (illustrates the mark of the Nürnberger Handwerkunst, Bayerisches Gewerbemuseum and discusses the design program which offered master class programs directed by Behrens, Riemerschmid, Haustein among others)
Dedo von Kressenbrock-Krosigk, Modern art of metalwork : Bröhan-Museum, State Museum of Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Functionalism (1889-1939), Berlin, 2001, pp. 294-299 (for information on the firm of Walter Scherf & Co. "OSIRIS")