Wilkenart Nouveau Candy Box, Jugendstil, “apfelbäumchen” Pattern, Design Heinrich Vogeler, 1902

Heinrich Vogeler / Wilkens – Bonbonnière "Apfelbäumchen", Silver 800 Gilt, Bremen circa 1902Design: Heinrich Vogeler 1902 · M.H. Wilkens & Söhne, Bremen · Model 151891 · Rare Piece

A bonbonnière / sugar box in silver 800 with gilt interior, decorated with the Apfelbäumchen (apple blossom tree) and Margeritenmuster (daisy) floral motifs, designed by Heinrich Vogeler in 1902 and executed by the Silberwarenmanufaktur M.H. Wilkens & Söhne in Bremen circa 1902. Diameter 12 cm · height 10.2 cm · weight approx. 320 g. Hallmarks: Wilkens mark circa 1902 · halbmond · crown · 800 · model number 151891.

The Apfelbäumchen decoration — intertwined flowering apple tree branches and daisies — is one of the most poetic and characteristic motifs of the German Jugendstil from Worpswede: an idealised nature, delicate and lyrical, inspired by Vogeler's prints and illustrations for the journals Die Insel and Pan. The bonbonnière, model 151891, belongs to a coherent series of silver objects in this decoration produced by Wilkens between 1902 and 1906 — champagne coupe (no. 147471, 1902), punch bowl (no. 147913, 1902), bonbonnière (no. 151891, 1903), bottle cooler (no. 175222, 1906) and vase/beaker (circa 1905).

Heinrich Vogeler (Bremen, 12 December 1872 – Voroshilovsk, Kazakhstan, 14 June 1942), painter, etcher, illustrator, architect and designer, was one of the central figures of the Künstlerkolonie Worpswede. His floral motifs — Herbstzeitlose, Tulipan, Apfelbäumchen — are represented in the collections of the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Cologne (inv. no. G 1394), the Deutsches Klingenmuseum in Solingen, the GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Leipzig, the Focke-Museum in Bremen and the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in Munich.

We are actively seeking further examples of this bonbonnière in good original condition. If you own an example you wish to sell, we would be delighted to receive your offer.

• Diameter: 12 cm · Height: 10.2 cm · Weight: approx. 320 g
• Material: silver 800 · gilt interior
• Hallmarks: Wilkens · halbmond · crown · 800 · model 151891
• Design: Heinrich Vogeler, 1902
• Production: M.H. Wilkens & Söhne, Bremen, circa 1902
• Literature: Manja Wilkens, Jugendstil in Silber, Bremen 2010 · Grotkamp-Schepers / Sänger, Bestecke des Jugendstils, Solingen 2000, p. 139 · Kerssenbrock-Krosigk, Metallkunst der Moderne, Bröhan-Museum, Berlin 2001 · Koch, Meisterwerke des Jugendstils im Bayerischen Nationalmuseum, Munich 2010, p. 30 · Löhr, Bremer Silber, Focke-Museum Bremen 1982
• Condition: very good original condition · rare piece

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Keywords integrated: Heinrich Vogeler, Apfelbäumchen bonbonnière, Wilkens Bremen, silver 800, Jugendstil Worpswede, model 151891, Margeritenmuster, Museum für Angewandte Kunst Cologne, GRASSI Museum Leipzig