Tapio Wirkkala - Nordic Design London Tuesday, September 23, 2014 | Phillips
  • Literature

    Marianne Aav, Rosa Barovier Mentasti and Gordon Bowyer, et al., Tapio Wirkkala - eye, hand and thought, exh. cat., Museum of Art and Design, Helsinki, 2000, p. 180, fig. 324 for the sugar bowl, p. 361
    Heikki Matiskainen, ed., Tapio Wirkkala: A Poet in Glass and Silver, Collection Kakkonen, exh. cat., Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki, 2013, p. 366, fig. 40 for the coffee pot, p. 367, fig. 42 for the sugar bowl and milk jug

159

Coffee set

1958
Precious metal, jacaranda.
Coffee pot: 21.3 x 21.5 x 11.5 cm (8 3/8 x 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.); milk jug: 8.6 x 8.5 x 6.5 cm (3 3/8 x 3 3/8 x 2 1/2 in.); sugar bowl: 6.4 cm (2 1/2 in.) high, 8.2 cm (3 1/4 in.) diameter
Handmade to order and produced by Kultakeskus Oy, Finland. Comprising coffee pot (model no. TW 82): milk jug (model no. TW 81); sugar bowl. Each piece marked with makers mark, Finnish assay mark, 916H, Hämeenlinna town mark, E7 and incised W.

Estimate
£4,000 - 6,000 

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London 24 September 2014 6pm