NEW YORK – On Sunday, June 25, Jasper52 will present an online auction of sterling silver items ranging from a French wine cooler and ice bowl made by Tetard Freres to a Fred Harvey-era belt buckle adorned with thunderbirds and a Bruneau jasper cabochon. Absentee and Internet bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.
Expected to top the bidding is the solid silver wine/champagne cooler and ice bowl set (above), which has a $6,500-$7,500 estimate. Both the cooler and the bowl have a narrow paneled design and feature a chased band around the top rim and foot with an applied acanthus leaf design. Each item has a tiny engraved crest on one side. This set, made in 1927, is of particularly good quality and substantial weight. Having a long history of exceptional silversmithing that merited gold medals at world expositions, the Tetard brothers of Paris, under the design leadership of Valery Bizouard, were a leading manufacturer of French Art Deco silver.
With a tradition lasting over 100 years, Georg Jensen exemplifies quality craftsmanship. Since the company’s founding in Copenhagen in 1904, it has embraced the Art Nouveau style and produced pieces that continue to resonate with design-conscious customers. Exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, Georg Jensen markings promise beauty and functionality. The Acorn salad spoon and fork by Georg Jensen offered in the auction have a $600-$700 estimate.
The 28-piece sterling silver flatware set in the Masterpiece pattern by International is a fine set to build upon. It consists of four-piece place settings for six in addition to a gravy ladle, serving spoon, cold meat fork and sugar spoon. The set comes with a new storage chest. The Masterpiece pattern was designed by Alfred G. Kintz and introduced in 1963. The international Silver Co. was formed in 1898 by various independent New England silversmiths. The company grew to become the world’s largest manufacturer of silverware.
In the category of objects of vertu are two sterling silver seated musicians with bobble heads made by Ludwig Neresheimer in Hanau, Germany, in the late 19th century. The drummer, 7 1/2 inches tall, was imported to the UK by Edwin Thomson Bryant in 1904, and as such carries the corresponding English silver hallmarks. The trumpet player, 7 inches tall, was imported to the UK by Berthold Mueller (Bernard Muller) in 1906. Both have detachable covers so they can be used as caddies. Hanau silver was largely imported into the UK at the turn of the 20th century. Berthold Mueller was an import firm that distributed a great deal of Neresheimer silver. The pair has a $4,500-$5,000 estimate.
To best display such fine curios is a sterling silver mirrored plateau, measuring approximately 10 1/2 inches in diameter. While the ring is stamped sterling silver, the maker’s mark is unclear. This circa 1920s piece carries a $250-$280 estimate.
British-born entrepreneur Fred Harvey (1835-1901) signed a contract in 1878 with the Santa Fe Railway to operate small restaurants at railroad depots along the railroad’s route. As a result he created the market and a place to sell jewelry, some of which was crafted by Native Americans, to travelers. Native American jewelry aficionados use his name to describe a particular type of Native American-style tourist jewelry that continued to be popular even after his death in 1901. The large Fred Harvey-era sterling silver belt buckle in the Jasper52 auction is highlighted by an oval piece of Bruneau jasper from Idaho that measures 1 5/8 inches by 2 1/4 inches and features a concentric orb pattern. At each corner of the silver buckle is a thunderbird. The belt buckle weighs 83.8 grams or 2.69 troy ounces.
The auction will begin Sunday, June 25, at 5 p.m. Eastern time.
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