My WMF bon-bon dish – 1910

This delightful silver-plated bon-bon dish featuring a simple and elegant design was manufactured by WMF (1) in Germany in the early 1910’s. Being a Biedermeier style piece, it is decorated with garlands of laurel leaves and flowers. Behind it, there is an oil on canvas painting by Carlos Miranda.
(1) WMF (Wurttembergische Metalwaren Fabrik) was by [...]

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My antique Orivit jugendstil Christening mug – Part one

This Christening mug is beautifully decorated with a representation of the Little Red Riding Hood in bas-relief.

Circa 1910, “ORIVIT” stamp mark to the base.

Orivit (1898-1905)
The ORIVIT AG was founded in 1894 as “Rheinische Broncegieserei fur Kleinplastiken” in Koln-Ehrenfeld (Germany) by Wilhelm Ferdinand Hubert Schmitz (1863-1939). The brand name Orivit was introduced in 1898 and was [...]

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My WMF Vienna Secessionist style mustard-pot

Polished pewter WMF mustard-pot.
Vienna Secessionist style.
Germany – 1906

WMF mark

The Austrian Artistic Movement
Vienna Secession
In 1897 a group of Artists, such as Otto Wagner and his gifted students, Joseph Hoffmann and Joseph Olbrich, with Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser and others aspired to the renaissance of the arts and crafts and to bring more abstract and [...]

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My WMF curling tongs and curling tongs spirit heater, c. 1900s.

Many devices have been used to curl, wave, crimp or straighten the hair.
Some used heat, such as the curling tongs on display which would be placed
over the small spirit burner in order to heat them.
WMF MARKS

WMF – ostrich mark
I/O (Normal thickness of gilding or silver-plating, i.e. one gram of deposited silver spread [...]

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My WMF copper inkwell

ART NOUVEAU / JUGENDSTIL
WMF (Württembergische Metallwaren Fabrik)
COPPER INKWELL / INK STAND
GERMANY, ca. 1890 – 1900
MARKED WITH THE EARLY WMF STRAUSS MARK.
The German factory W.M.F. produced some of the most elegant and evocative metalware in the ART NOUVEAU style from the beginning of the 20th century until the start of World War I.
The Wurttemberg [...]

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