Object Timeline

1915

  • Work on this object began.

1935

  • Work on this object ended.

1937

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

  • You found it!

Drawing, Designs for Silver Vases

This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1925 and we acquired it in 1937. Its medium is graphite, pen and ink on white paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Georg Jensen Sølvsmedie. It is credited Gift of Georg Jensen Hand Made Silver, Inc..

Its dimensions are

32.9 × 49.2 cm (12 15/16 × 19 3/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: B CRAYON ANCNE MANUFRE GANSON & MONTGOLFIER VIDALO --

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, lower left: Strax

Cite this object as

Drawing, Designs for Silver Vases; Germany; graphite, pen and ink on white paper; 32.9 × 49.2 cm (12 15/16 × 19 3/8 in.); Gift of Georg Jensen Hand Made Silver, Inc.; 1937-79-1

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