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Details
- Dimensions
- 2.25ʺW × 1.25ʺD × 4.5ʺH
- Styles
- Victorian
- Period
- Late 19th Century
- Country of Origin
- Austria
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Crystal
- Silver
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Silver
- Condition Notes
- Very Good For Its Age. Very Good For Its Age. less
- Description
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A Carved Rock Crystal, Enameled Silver Gem Set Miniature Vase.
The body is hand carved quartz (rock crystal) with flowers, … more A Carved Rock Crystal, Enameled Silver Gem Set Miniature Vase.
The body is hand carved quartz (rock crystal) with flowers, birds and mythical heads attached to the branches, hinged enameled silver gem set handles attached to the silver rim and mounted atop of the body as well as the enameled silver gem set base attached to the end of the body.
Austria, 1880
Apparently unmarked Attributed to: Hermann Bohm (1866 - 1922)
Hermann Böhm (also spelled Boehm) was a famous silversmith and enameler working in Vienna between the end of the 19th century until 1922. Originally from Hungary, he moved to Austria in 1866 and started working as a silversmith with his father-in-law Ludwig Politzer. He specialised mainly in vases, table ornaments and novelty objects in the Renaissance revival style and inspired by the antique. In Germany and Austria the neo-Renaissance style developed in the final decades of the 19th century alongside the growth of a national identity, and took the name of Historismus or Historicism. By the time of the Vienna International Exhibition in 1873, Bohm was already considered one of the most prominent Austrian enamelers, among the likes of Hermann Ratzersdorfer, Ludwig Politzer, Rudolf Linke and Karl Bank. The very high quality of his silver-mounted enamelled artworks received international acclaim at the Exposition Universelle in Paris 1889. He also exhibited at the International Fair in Paris in 1899 receiving international acclaim. On that occasion, the British correspondent for the London trade journal, the ‘Jeweller & Metal Worker’, spent these words about his artworks: ‘Böhm ... indeed counts its chief glory to give perfect reproductions of grand medieval pieces, rich of gems and enamel of many colours, while even his modern specimens of the goldsmith’s and jewellers’ art are so quaint and old-world in time and feeling that they have the charm of heirlooms … the effect is gorgeous without being barbaric ...’ less
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