"CODFISH" CENTERPIECE, NO. 1026 | Sotheby´s

Estimated value: 50,000—70,000 US$

Reached Price: 60,000 US$

Auction:
Important 20th Century Design

Sales date: 2006-12-15

Location:
New York

Lot number: 124

Design HENNING KOPPEL
Year 1989, designed 1954
Manufacturer Georg Jensen, Copenhagen
Architonic id 4107771

Silver
Marked under base
7 1/8 x 27 x 12 3/8 in. (18.1 x 68.6 x 31.4 cm) 189.2 oz (5,884 g)

Provenance:
Gallery Danborg, Copenhagen

Literature and References:
Rita Caviglia, “Scandinavian Modern,” Progressive Architecture, November 1982, p. 30
Hiort, 1954, p. 101
Fifty Years of Danish Silver in the Georg Jensen Tradition, 1955, p. 51
Moller, 1965, p. 17
Hughes, 1967, p. 20
Henning Koppel: A Commemorative Exhibition,1982, p. 6
Schwandt, 1987, p. 3686
Funder, 1999, p. 159
Kaiser, 2000, pp. 80-81
Drucker, 2001, p. 205
Drucker and Drucker, 2002, p. 110
Fiell and Fiell, 2002, p. 366
Taylor and Laskey, 2003, p. 305
August, 2004, p. 67