ART NOVEAU SILVER AND IVORY MUSTARD POT.
Design Henry van de Velde; ca. 1910; executed by Martin Mayer; Mainz.

Silver. Ivory. Slightly flared lower area; cylindrical wall above. Upper part in stylized tendrils
openwork with cartouche on the front side. The hinged lid underlaid with ivory and floral
relief decoration.. Ca. 68g. Height 9cm.

Crescent & crown; standard 800 or 900 (slightly indistinct); workshop stamp Martin Mayer; number 68. Condition A/B.

Provenance:
Private collection Hessen.

Literatur:
- F鰄l; Thomas & Neumann; Antje (Hrsg.): Henry van de Velde - Raumkunst und Kunsthandwerk
- Ein Werkverzeichnis in sechs B鋘den; Bd.1; Metallkunst; Leipzig 2009. For the comission
by Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst von Sachsen-Weimar see p.94ff.
- Kerssenbrock-Krosigk; Dedo von: Metallkunst der Moderne - Br鰄an-Museum; Leipzig 2001;
Band IV Metallkunst; Br鰄an-Museum 1990; p.18ff.
- Ulmer; Renate: Museum K黱stlerkolonie Darmstadt; Darmstadt 1990.
- Wiench; Peter (Redak.): Das gro遝 Lexikon der Antiquit鋞en; Hamburg 1980; S.524. The
model described and pictured.

His first major order for holloware Henry van de Velde got on the occasion of the wedding
of his donor; the grand duke Wilehlm Ernst of Saxony-Weimar and Princess Caroline of Reu?
on the 30 th April 1903. The order; on behalf of the civil service; included 355 pieces in
total.
The models were developed in close cooperation with the Weimar court jeweller Theodor
M黮ler. Due to the size of the order; however; the execution of the service was handed
over to the Bremer Silberwarenfabrik Koch & Bergfeld; but the work was probably only
provided with the signets van de Veldes and Theodor M黮lers (F鰄l & Neumann; 2009; p.96
and p.98). The gift for the Grand Ducal Table aroused great enthusiasm among
contemporaries and in the following years the range of van de Velde's silver designs grew
steadily (ibid. p.100ff.).

Another mustard jug can be found in the collection of the Museum f黵 Kunst und Gewerbe in
Hamburg (Wiech; 1980).

The Mainz silverware factory Martin Mayer also executed designs of the artists from the
Darmst鋎ter Mathildenh鰄e; such as for example for Patriz Huber (Ulmer; 1990; pp.117ff.)
or Peter Behrens.


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