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Henry van de Velde

Antwerp 1863 – 1957 Zurich

Silver brooch for Hanni Esche. 1900/03

Silver, red-gold gilt. 3 × 4,7 cm (1 ⅛ × 1 ⅞ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Henry van de Velde. Silver brooch for Hanni Esche. 1900/03.

Estimate:

EUR 15,000

 

- 20,000

USD 17,100

 

- 22,800

Sold for:

15,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Spring Auctions 2016

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 02.06.2016

Information

Silver, red-gold gilt. 3 × 4,7 cm (1 ⅛ × 1 ⅞ in.). On the reverse: artist's signet of Henry van de Velde; fineness information: 835. Catalogue raisonné: Will be included in the catalogue raisonné of van de Velde's work by Antje Neumann. We would like to thank Antje Neumann, Weimar – author of the vam de Velde-Werksverzeichnisses - for kindly providing additional information.

Comparable piece and related literature: Ulrike of Hase: Schmuck in Deutschland und Österreich 1895–1914, Munich 1977, no. 543, p. 285 / Thomas Föhl and Antje Neumann (ed.): Henry van de Velde Raumkunst und Kunsthandwerk, vol. 1, Leipzig 2009, cat. no. 11.41, p.49 (both relating to a gold brooch for Hanni Esche, now in a private collection).

Circa 1900/02 Hanni Esche (born Johanna Louise Koerner, 1879–1911), Chemnitz / after 1911 presumably to her husband Herbert Eugen Esche (1874–1962), Chemnitz and Switzerland, or to her son Hans- Herbert Esche (1900–1977), Gauting / private collection, Gauting / since 2000 private collection, Munich

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