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Compote

Compote, Designed 1918

  • Georg Arthur Jensen, Danish, 1866-1935
  • Georg Jensen Silversmithy, Danish, active 1904 - present

Silver

  • Overall: 10 1/2 × 9 7/8 inches (26.7 × 25.1 cm)

Gift of George G. Booth

22.19

Department

European Modern Art to 1970

Details

J.W. "Recent Additions to the Decorative Arts Department." Bulletin of the DIA 3, no. 7 (April 1922): pp. 70–72 (ill.).

Georg Arthur Jensen; Georg Jensen Silversmithy, Compote, Designed 1918, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of George G. Booth, 22.19.

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