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THBImportant Norwegian Henrik Møller Dragestil Viking Revival 22 kt. Yellow Gold Hand Mirror
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LiveJun 26, 2024
Featuring an important 18k/22k gold dresser set by Norwegian goldsmith H. Moller; Empire style and Continental furniture and accessories from a Miami collection; silver including Buccellati flatware, sets of Christofle flatware and plates; early English Delft, including wine jugs and posset pots; a curated library of leather bound books; fine art including Albert Rieger, Mark Lijftogt, Solari, Old Master Portraits, John Riley, John Jackson, Wm. Daniell after George Dance, P. Sandby; sculptures by or after Rodin, Giambologna, Allouard, Charpentier Coysevox, Goujon, and others Brunk Auctions support@brunkauctions.com
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early 20th century, Arts and Crafts Dragestil style decoration, elaborate Viking revival imagery, interlaced strapwork designs with dragons and monsters, front with figures toasting with doves and dog in front of home, raised inscription on back "Søkkvabekk - Mirror" and "Odin and Saga at Søkkvabekk", on handle "For the family with the admonition to always consider before acting, aware that Saga Griffel relentlessly records both bad and good" and around mirror "The father of the family gives his wife/the mirror for her to keep it open/the mirror is given/the present and past/transition between past and future", marked "H. Møller 22 K Trondhjem", 587.23 grams (with glass mirror removed but not paper liner or wax), 8-3/4 in.
Provenance: Brunk Auction, September 14, 2018, lot 709; Private Collection
Note: Norwegian silversmith Henrik Møller (1858-1937) was from a fourth generation family of jewelers who moved to Trondheim in 1770. Henrik started his apprenticeship at the age of 14 in the family workshop. He traveled and studied in Copenhagen, Vienna, and New York. He later returned to Trondheim and opened his shop in 1900, and was a major proponent of Dragestil (Dragon Style), a Norse Revival style of the Arts & Crafts period that used Viking era and early Medieval motifs. Much of his work was influenced by the architecture of Trondheim. Henrik catered to royalty, industrialists, and wealthy tourists prior to World War I, including Andrew Carnegie, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and King Chulalongkorn of Siam, now Thailand.Examples of Henrik Møller works can be found in Kunstindustrimuseet (Museum of Art) in Oslo and the Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum in Trondheim.
For similar examples at auction in silver see Christie's online auction 20673, New York, April 5, 2022, lot 68, sold for $88,200 and Christie's auction 17423, August 22, 2019, New York, lot 108. - Provenance
Brunk Auction, September 14, 2018, lot 709; Private Collection
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- Condition
very good condition, mirror replaced, includes original mirror
