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Emil Lettré

Hanau 1876 – 1954 Berlin

Toilet set – consisting of a hand mirror, a square brush and a round brush. Circa 1926

Silver, embossed, chased, gilt; mirror glass; wood; natural brush. 32,3 cm / 14,3 cm / Ø 7,8 cm (12 ¾ in. / 5 ⅝ in. / Ø 3 ⅛ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Emil Lettré. Toilet set – consisting of a hand mirror, a square brush and a round brush. Circa 1926.

Estimate:

EUR 3,000

 

- 5,000

USD 3,530

 

- 5,890

Sold for:

2,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2017

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 30.11.2017

Information

Silver, embossed, chased, gilt; mirror glass; wood; natural brush. 32,3 cm / 14,3 cm / Ø 7,8 cm (12 ¾ in. / 5 ⅝ in. / Ø 3 ⅛ in.). All pieces with the master's mark: L in a circle. Mirror glass losing its relfective qualiity slightly.

Estate Emil Lettré

Internationale Ausstellung Paris 1937 für Kunst und Technik, German section, wall vitrine 3: Silber von Lettré / Lettré – Berlin. Silbernes Gerät und Schmuck. Düsseldorf, Kunstverein, 1950 (no catalogue) / Carl-Wolfgang Schümann (ed.): Emil Lettré. Andreas Moritz. Zwei deutsche Silberschmiede im 20. Jahrhundert. exh. cat., Cologne, 1976, cat. no 57a/b/c, ill. 28 / Die Berliner Goldschmiede Emil Lettré und Herbert Zeitner, Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau, 2010 (no catalogue)

Deutschland in Paris – L’Allemagne à Paris – Germany in Paris – La Germania a Parigi. Ein Bild-Buch von Heinrich Hoffmann. Munich, 1937, ill. p. 62 / Gold und Silber, III (January/February 1950) / Emil Lettré. In: Uhren, Schmuck und edles Gerät, 1950, vol 12 (December), p. 334–337, ill. p. 335

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