Prix estimatif: 5000-7000 US$
Enchères:
Modernist 20 Century
Date de vente: 2003-12-07
Lieu des enchères:
Chicago
Numéro du lot: 174
Design
Eliel Saarinen
Numéro ID d'Architonic
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