Mint STERLING SILVER GEORG JENSEN GOBLET GRAPE VINE CUP 296A - Rare

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Mint STERLING SILVER GEORG JENSEN GOBLET GRAPE VINE CUP 296A - Rare:
$2700.00

This was my father\'s and has been lovingly cared for. It is listed in the catalogue as size small, however, it is the MEDIUM sized in the series and is quite large, measuring a bit under four inches tall and three inches in diameter.

The underside carries a full set of clear marks that include:Maker Mark: impressed \"Georg Jensen\" in horizontal beaded oval (period 1945-)

As most of Georg Jensen’s design pieces, thewine cup is in the Art Nouveau style with the characteristic ornamental curved lines, organic structures, decorative ornaments of flora and fauna, and the use of honest and skilfullycrafted materials.

In these hollowware pieces, Georg Jensen has incorporated nature as decoration. The surface of the actual cup and the foot has the characteristic hammer marks, which Georg Jensen used to soften the reflection of light in the silver in order to create the greyish shimmer he associated with moonshine.

The chaser has worked on the stem of the wine cups to accentuate the pattern and has applied the hammer marks on the cups before handing over the pieces to the silversmith. Before soldering together the foot and the stem and then the cup, the silversmith spends a lot of time lining up the pieces to make sure that the angles are absolutely perfect. The smallest inaccuracy will make the wine cup look crooked.

Design year: 1928

Materials: Sterling silver

Measurements: H. 9.6 cm / 3.77 inches Ø: 7.2 cm / 2.83 inches

DESIGNER:GEORG JENSEN

In1904, Danish silversmith Georg Jensenfounded his first modest silver smithy in theheart of Copenhagen. Thirty years later, he had made an international name for himself. When he died in 1935, the New York Herald Tribune saluted him as \"the greatest silversmith of the last 300 years.\"