Footed bowl, model SD71 | Wright

Schätzpreis: 5000-7000 US$

Auktion:
Modernist 20 Century

Verkaufsdatum: 2003-12-07

Ort der Auktion:
Chicago

Los Nummer: 174

Design

Eliel Saarinen

Architonic ID

4103280

Sterling silver
11"dia x 3"h
Saarinen originally designed this form for his model dining room at "The Architect and the Industrial Arts" exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1929. Charter Silver Company, a division of International Silver, put the bowl into production in three sizes. Stamped with impressed marks: [sterling SD 71 by Saarinen]. A similiar example is in the collection of Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Literature:
House & Garden, Dec. 1931, pg. 67