German Silver Bread Dish - Art Deco - Antique Circa 1900

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 K¶rner & Proll (of Berlin)

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

National mark: Crescent moon and crown

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Maker: Körner & Proll

This antique bread dish is a very good gauge of silver, fine quality and in excellent presentation condition.

The pierced and applied decoration is very sharp.

Full hallmarks struck to the underside of the dish are all very clear.

Reflections in photographs may detract from the true representation of this example of German silverware.

Length 31.7cm/12.5"

Width 19.2cm/7.6"

Height 8.1cm/3.2"

11 troy ounces/343g