Art Nouveau Georg Jensen 925 Silver Oval Sugar Box #2, Blossom, 1933-44

Georg Jensen – Oval Sugar Box #2, Blossom / Magnolia Collection, Sterling Silver, Copenhagen 1933–1944 Design: Georg Jensen 1905 · Blossom / Magnolia Collection · Silver 925 · Square Hallmark 1933–1944 · Dutch Import Mark

An oval covered sugar box in sterling silver 925, model #2, Blossom / Magnolia collection, designed by Georg Jensen in 1905 and executed by the Georg Jensen Silberschmiede in Copenhagen between 1933 and 1944. Height approx. 8.7 cm · width 13 cm · depth 9.5 cm. Square Georg Jensen hallmark 1933–1944 · Dutch import mark on the reverse.

The Blossom collection — called Magnolia in Danish — is Georg Jensen's first hollowware creation: the 1905 teapot, topped with a magnolia bud and balanced on toad feet, was the founding work that revealed his genius. The floral motif — a stem winding upwards around the handle to emerge as a flower bud on the verge of opening — is the most personal and accomplished expression of Scandinavian Art Nouveau applied to silversmithing. The Blossom flatware pattern #84 was introduced in 1919 — the most exclusive and labour-intensive pattern in the entire Jensen production, entirely handwrought.

The presence of the Dutch import mark attests that this piece, like many Jensen creations of the 1933–1944 period, was exported to the Netherlands — a collector market particularly receptive to Danish design in the interwar years.

Upon his death in 1935, the New York Herald Tribune saluted Georg Jensen as "the greatest silversmith of the last 300 years." His works are held in the collections of the Designmuseum Danmark in Copenhagen, MoMA in New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Further pieces from the Blossom / Magnolia collection are available in our gallery, including elements from the #84 flatware service. Please contact us or visit our website for our full current stock.

• Height: approx. 8.7 cm · Width: 13 cm · Depth: 9.5 cm
• Material: sterling silver 925
• Hallmark: square Georg Jensen mark 1933–1944 · Dutch import mark
• Model: #2 · Blossom / Magnolia collection
• Design: Georg Jensen, 1905
• Production: Georg Jensen Silberschmiede, Copenhagen, 1933–1944
• Condition: vintage · previously owned · very good well-maintained condition

Seen in museums — available to you.

Available for viewing by appointment at our Düsseldorf gallery.

Keywords integrated: Georg Jensen, Blossom Magnolia sugar box #2, sterling silver 925, Danish Art Nouveau 1905, hallmark 1933-44, Dutch import mark, Designmuseum Danmark, MoMA New York