German Silver Bread Dish - Art Deco - Antique Circa 1900

Description

This fine antique German silver dish has an oval boat shaped form.

The interior surface of the Art Deco bread dish is embellished with four impressive pierced escutcheon shaped vertical pale ornamentations accented with applied festoon decoration.

The lobed portions of the body are further ornamented with a paralleling panel of pierced circular motifs flanked with horizontal pales, all in the iconic Art Deco style.

The rim is ornamented with an impressive applied reed decorated border.

The hallmarks struck to the underside of this impressive dish include:

Maker's mark: Icon for Körner & Proll (of Berlin)

Silver quality/purity mark: .800 (800/1000)

National mark: Crescent moon and crown

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