Lot 84: ERIK MAGNUSSEN

ERIK MAGNUSSEN "THE MODERN AMERICAN" FOOTED BOWL, NO. 14066 AND PAIR OF CANDLESTICKS, NO. 14067 bowl and candlesticks engraved with bands of stylized triglyphs, all on stepped circular bases raised on four conforming knop feet, candlesticks with removable nozzles and cement loaded bases bases stamped with firm's mark and Gorham/EM cipher silver 23.5cm, 31.7cm diameter of bowl 9 1/4 in., height of candlesticks 12 1/2 in. weight of bowl 26oz 4dwt 815g designed 1928 Gorham Mfg. Co., Providence, RI

"The Modern American," Jeweler's Circular, 5 July 1928, p. 2 (for a Gorham Company advertisement showing a similar model)
Jewel Stern, Modernism in American Silver, New Haven, 2005, pgs. 30-32.

Only 25 examples of the "Modern American" bowl were created. A smaller model is in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum, and a larger variant is in the Dallas Museum of Art.