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Paul Lemieux Posts: 1792 |
posted 06-23-2006 11:23 PM
  
I hope some of you have had the chance to take a look at Jewel Stern's splendid catalog for the Dallas Museum's exhibition of American Modernist silver. Does anybody have examples of Modernist hollowware or flatware to share? IP: Logged |
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DB Posts: 252 |
posted 07-06-2006 02:57 PM
I try to post some bar items made by Leonore Doskow Inc. - compare handle of these items with the handle on the tea-strainer with caddy (Jewel Stern, page 182, Fig,8.24) I think certain limitations in technical execution had an influence on the Doskow designs or it was just more economical to buy ready made wire etc. Length: 5 1/2", the medicine spoon shown next to the bar items is typical with applied mono.(6") Also probably something for the bar - long spoon 12 1/8" made by Steuben, and marked Steuben Sterling, any idea who could have made this one? Hope I did the posting of the photos right. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Paul Lemieux Posts: 1792 |
posted 07-07-2006 10:26 AM
I don't know who produces sterling items for Steuben, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did it themselves as many of their items incorporate metal. Some of their barware items over the years have been sold with sterling implements, so I suspect this spoon originally came with some kind of glass pitcher. Their current "Evening" pattern cocktail pitcher comes with a long sterling stirrer, which is marked "SteubenGlass STERLING". In addition, many of Steuben's glass sculptures incorporate sterling silver, 18k yellow gold, or bronze. IP: Logged |
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adelapt Posts: 418 |
posted 07-08-2006 03:02 PM
Callie Stacey made reference in this forum quite a while ago to her father Harold Stacey, who for a while worked in silver for Steuben. His friend Solve Halquist also worked there, but the project was wound up and evidently the relatively few products they made were stored away. IP: Logged |
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FredZ Posts: 1070 |
posted 07-08-2006 09:10 PM
Paul, Does the work of Adda Husted Andersen appear in the catalog? She was an influential silvesmith and jeweler living in New York. I have recently acquired a gravy server or creamer and will post it once I recall my Photobucket password. I also own a spun brass bowl by Andersen. Fred [This message has been edited by FredZ (edited 07-08-2006).] IP: Logged |
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Brent Posts: 1507 |
posted 07-09-2006 11:59 AM
Welcome to the Forums, Dorothea! I have seen one of two examples of the Steuben bar spoon before, bearing the trademark of Graff, Washbourne and Dunn and a "HAND WROUGHT" mark as well as "STEUBEN". We can safely say that GW&D did make sterling items to accompany some Steuben glass; I would assume that other companies did as well. GW&D were purchased by Gorham in 1961; I'm not sure what became of their patterns/designs. Anyway, the bar spoon design seems to have originated with GW&D; maybe Gorham or someone else made it in later years. Brent IP: Logged |
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June Martin Forum Master Posts: 1326 |
posted 07-09-2006 01:48 PM
Hi, Fred. No mention of Adda Husted Andersen in the Modernism book. IP: Logged |
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FredZ Posts: 1070 |
posted 07-09-2006 06:04 PM
Thanks June, I will post the images as soon as I can. Fred IP: Logged |
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FWG Posts: 845 |
posted 07-09-2006 07:06 PM
I also checked for Adda Husted Andersen in another neat book I have, Lee Nordness' Objects:USA, a 1970 survey of modernist work in a variety of media (enamel, ceramic, glass, metal, jewelry, plastic, mosaic, wood and fiber). She wasn't included there, either. Silversmiths included in this work are: Joe Reyes Apodaca, Thomas R. Bambas, Hans Christensen, Fred Fenster, Robert J. King, John Prip, John C. Marshall, Ronald Hayes Pearson (although the illustrated pieces by him are iron and copper rather than silver), Zaven Zee Sipantzi, and Frederick A. Miller; there are also other metalsmiths included. Each gets a short bio sketch, a photo, and at least one piece illustrated. Then there are an additional 31 people included under jewelry. The book documents a project of S. C. Johnson & Son Inc. (Johnson's Wax) that formed this very impressive collection of 300 objects as part of its "corporate-responsibility" program (it followed on their earlier ART:USA project). The author and Paul Smith traveled around the country over an 8-month period building the collection and meeting with the artists. The collection was shown in Washington DC and other places, but unfortunately the book does not list the other locations or dates. IP: Logged |
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DB Posts: 252 |
posted 07-09-2006 07:14 PM
Thanks to all re Steuben spoon. Callie Stacey is a member of the Silver Society of Canada and has lectured to the SSC about her father's work - Harold Stacey. She has written an article about his work for Steuben in the SSC Newsletter,Fall 1999 - the Stacey/ Steuben relationsship was not harmonious. Probably the old adage of conflict between production and studio silver. Steuben ended the experiment naming the Korean War as reason. And Steuben - I think - had silver made by Gorham afterwards. I just thought, that Gorham would have marked their silver. I mentioned this spoon to Callie, but she thought it was not her father's work. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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FredZ Posts: 1070 |
posted 07-14-2006 03:46 PM
FWG, I also have a copy of "Objects USA". Ms. Andersen participated in a few of the jewelry exhibits held at the Walker Art Center in the '40s. She was born in Denmark and immigrated to New York. Fred IP: Logged |
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Ulysses Dietz Moderator Posts: 1265 |
posted 07-15-2006 09:42 AM
Ada (or Adda) Husted Andersen worked in NYC in the 1940s and 50s--and only died in fairly recent years. The Newark Museum included her work in an exhibition in 1948 called "The Decorative Arts Today" and commissioned a salt and pepper set, with enameling, in 1952, based on a design from the 1948 show. She would not have been included in the exhibition on Modernist silver, because that was about industrially made silver, not handcraft--and Husted-Andersen was a craftswoman/designer. We still need a show on handmade silver from the 20th century. [This message has been edited by Ulysses Dietz (edited 07-15-2006).] IP: Logged |
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DB Posts: 252 |
posted 07-15-2006 12:17 PM
Margo Grant Walsh is working on an exhibition of her collection of studio silver on the west coast next year. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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FredZ Posts: 1070 |
posted 07-17-2006 03:42 PM
Here is the Adda Husted Andersen piece I just acquired Fred IP: Logged |
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June Martin Forum Master Posts: 1326 |
posted 07-23-2006 04:53 PM
Hi, Fred. Beautiful piece. Any chance you can share a photo of its marks? IP: Logged |
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FredZ Posts: 1070 |
posted 07-23-2006 07:40 PM
June, It is a classy piece by this influential silversmith/jeweler. I will post images of the mark soon once I take them. The marks on this piece are partial since they were struck on a domed surface. I also own a brass and copper bowl by Anderson and it is marked with her full name in script and her AHA stylized mark. This mark is missing the two leading lines extending from the top A and the H. Fred IP: Logged |
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Ulysses Dietz Moderator Posts: 1265 |
posted 07-31-2006 09:06 AM
Herewith, pictures of a salt and pepper set commissioned by The Newark Museum from Adda Husted-Anderson in 1953--from a design she showed at the Museum in 1948. IP: Logged |
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FredZ Posts: 1070 |
posted 07-31-2006 11:27 AM
Great set. That is a set I would use each day. We used the creamer as a gravy server this week-end and it was a hit. Fred IP: Logged |
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June Martin Forum Master Posts: 1326 |
posted 07-31-2006 10:27 PM
Thanks, Fred for posting the mark as well as the piece. And thanks, Ulysses for the beautiful pieces that you posted. IP: Logged |
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Paul Lemieux Posts: 1792 |
posted 02-05-2007 12:23 AM
Here is another piece of Adda Husted-Andersen's work. It is a cocktail stirrer measuring 12" long. The top is set with a caged chunk of rough rutilated quartz. It is marked STERLING [AHA mark] HANDMADE and also with a script signature of "Adda Husted-Andersen". The large stone at the top makes this spoon nice and easy to grip and stir with...I'll definitely use it next time I make a pitcher of sangria.
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FredZ Posts: 1070 |
posted 02-05-2007 05:02 PM
Great stirrer Paul. I love it when pieces are marked with both full name and the maker's hallmark. I recently acquired a modernist gold and pearl brooch by New York jeweler Ed Wiener. I had to research the pin to find the maker since it was marked with only his initials. The EW were diagonally offset from eachouther. I was fortunate to find a similar set of jewelry where one piece was fully marked ED WIENER and the other just EW. Fred IP: Logged |
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Paul Lemieux Posts: 1792 |
posted 02-05-2007 05:11 PM
Fred, perhaps you can post pictures of the Ed Wiener pin here or there's a Modernist jewelry thread too. He is one of my favorite designers. IP: Logged |
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FredZ Posts: 1070 |
posted 03-05-2007 11:07 AM
Paul, I too am an admirer of Wiener's work. Fred IP: Logged |
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middletom Posts: 467 |
posted 03-07-2007 04:22 PM
Fred, I find the stamping on the Anderson bowl interesting, for as you noted, the beginning and end of the words are not clear because it was stamped on a domed surface. Early in my career at ONC, I helped do stamping on Revere bowls and the fanciest one, the Sons of Liberty reproduction bowl. It was necessary to roll the flat stamp across the dome of the bowl bottom, tapping as one went, to have the entire word come out clearly. One had to be careful to roll the stamp in a straight line or the word, such as "sterling", would end up being banana shaped. The customer stores, such as Shreve, Crump and Low, were very picky about matters like that, and would send a piece back to us if the stamping wasn't as near perfectly straight and clear as possible. Nobody is that fussy these days. IP: Logged |
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Paul Lemieux Posts: 1792 |
posted 03-07-2007 08:34 PM
Thanks for the images of the Ed Wiener piece, Fred. It is a beautiful piece. I have had some non-Wiener pins in this same style, but they are never as refined as the originals. Here is a 6" Modernist sterling & enamel dish by Towle. I believe the design is by Earl Pardon. IP: Logged |
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salmoned Posts: 336 |
posted 03-19-2007 06:49 PM
Humble but loved (sorry for the poor photo). My Stieff 5" bowl which I believe qualifies for the category. IP: Logged |
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agleopar Posts: 850 |
posted 03-20-2007 10:05 AM
It works, simple lines, simple concept. It would fit well in a Mies Van Der Rohe house next to the Brno chair. IP: Logged |
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dragonflywink Posts: 993 |
posted 03-24-2007 11:19 PM
These are Georg Jensen demitasse spoons in a fairly uncommon pattern called Harlequin, designed in 1958 by noted Danish ceramacist Eva Staehr-Nielsen (1911-76). Mine have worn gold-wash with opaque champleve enamel, have also seen them with guilloche enamel and in 8 different colorways, with letters A-H stamped on the various combinations. Believe it was a very limited line, have only run across the coffee spoons and small pastry forks. Please forgive the quickly done pic, just saw them in one of the spoon cases and thought they might make an interesting addition to this post. Cheryl IP: Logged |
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FredZ Posts: 1070 |
posted 03-29-2007 11:48 AM
Here is a salt dish and spoon by Maria Regnier. She studied in St Louis and RISD and was active from 1935-70. She produced holloware, flatware, jewelry, and other silver items in St Louis, Georgia and Arkansas. She was represented by some of the top retailers in the Nation and her work is highly prized. Her mark is MR conjoined in a square. The mark is similar to the mark used by Margaret Rogers. IP: Logged |
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agleopar Posts: 850 |
posted 04-02-2007 01:31 PM
And who made the cute little salt dish? Can we see the mark?? IP: Logged |
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FredZ Posts: 1070 |
posted 04-02-2007 02:50 PM
Maria made the salt as well. The mark is larger and incomplete on the salt. That is why I did not show it. The base of the salt is made with a ring of heavy square wire. Fred IP: Logged |
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Paul Lemieux Posts: 1792 |
posted 03-10-2008 05:19 PM
Here is another addition for our post about Modernist silver. It is a Gorham candy dish made with purple glass and a silver lid with a crystal sphere handle. An identical example, as well as three in other colors, are shown in Stern's Modernism in American Silver. The amethyst glass example debuted in 1963, was a good seller, and other colors of glass were subsequently made available. The glass was made by Lindshammar Glasbruk in Sweden. IP: Logged |
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