A Belgian Louis XV Revival silver Centrepiece (1890 London)

DT15.86.1

Silver

Brusells 1890-1895 with maker's mark of Wolfers Freres & Sons

26.00 inch wide   21.75 inch high   17.00 inch deep

66.04 cm wide  55.24 cm high  43.18 cm deep

349.00 Troy Ounces

10853.90 Grams

Private Collection, Rancho Mirage, CA.

With German 'Imperial Crown and Moon Crescent' import mark and German retailer mark (possibly ''Friedlander'), the two-tiered asymmetrical wave-form structure decorated with a putto, a conch shell and rocaille motifs, surmounted by a conch shell finial

A similar centerpiece was included in the exhibition''Wolfers Dynasty: from Art Nouveau to Art Deco'', December 16, 2006 - April 9, 2007, Design Museum, Ghent, Belgium and is illustrated in the catalogue, p. 22.

With German 'Imperial Crown and Moon Crescent' import mark and German retailer mark (possibly ''Friedlander'), the two-tiered asymmetrical wave-form structure decorated with a putto, a conch shell and rocaille motifs, surmounted by a conch shell finial

A similar centerpiece was included in the exhibition''Wolfers Dynasty: from Art Nouveau to Art Deco'', December 16, 2006 - April 9, 2007, Design Museum, Ghent, Belgium and is illustrated in the catalogue, p. 22.

Provenance:

Private Collection, Rancho Mirage, CA.

Literature:

de' Haeseleer, Martine, ''Silverware from the Belgian Workshop Wolfers Freres in the Belle Epoque Period'': www.modernsilver.com/marchupdate/WolfersFreres.htm;
de' Haeseleer, ''Expressions of Japonisme in Wolfers Art Nouveau: a Curvilinear Parallelism with America'': />

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