Minneapolis Institute of Art

Pitcher

Designer: Johan Rohde; Georg Jensen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Date

c. 1920

Medium

Silver, ivory

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

The use of ivory in handles of silver vessels and containers as an insulator against heat is several centuries old, but Johan Rohde integrated this material into a very modernist, twentieth-century Scandinavian design. Denmark, Europe

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