Hugo Böhm
Art Déco service
Silver. Comprising a coffee pot, teapot, sugar bowl, milk jug and tray. Cylindrical body on a flat base with elongated console spout and ebony handle. The wall with faint martelé; the domed lid with disk pommel. Large oval tray with flat mirror and wide rim. Marks: Mark of fineness 800 with crescent and crown, maker's mark Hugo Böhm & Co (Schwäbisch Gmünd from 1887, Neuwirth no. 280). H of the coffee pot 20; L of the tray 53.5; W 39.8 cm, total weight 2,930 g.
Schwäbisch Gmünd, Hugo Böhm & Co, around 1930.
Provenance
Private collection, Rhineland.
Literature
For the maker's mark of Hugo Boehm, see Deutscher Goldschmiedekalender, Geschäftshandbuch für das Juwelier- und Goldschmiede-Gewerbe, Leipzig 1935, p. 144. See also Krekel-Aalberse, Jugendstil- und Art Déco-Silber, Munich 1989, p. 252.
