Details
Pyramid pattern, designed by Harald Nielsen in 1930, comprising a tea pot, coffee pot, creamer, sugar bowl and cover, and pitcher, all tapering cylindrical with stepped covers and ball finials, the teapot, coffee pot, and pitcher with scrolled ebony handles, marked on undersides
712 in. (19 cm.) high, the coffee pot
89 oz. 8 dwt. (2,780 gr.) gross weight
Provenance
100 Years of Georg Jensen: Magnificent Silver from the Rowler Collection; Christie's, New York, 19 January 2005, lot 288 (the pitcher).
The four piece tea and coffee service acquired in 2001.
Literature
Alison Fisher, Georg Jensen, Scandinavian Design for Living, Chicago, 2018, p. 114-115 (a four piece example of this model with tray).
David Taylor and Jason Laskey, Georg Jensen: Holloware, the Silver Fund Collection, London, 2003, pp. 207, 210 (a four piece example of this model, and an example of the pitcher).
Special notice
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A four piece example of this model with a tray was sold at Christie's, New York, 2-3 December 2016, lot 259. Another four piece example with a tray, tea strainer, and jam jar sold from the Rowler Collection at Christie's, New York, 19 January 2005, lot 293.

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