Ferdinand Boberg
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an Art Nouveau silver vase 'Skogen' (the Forest), flower pot, K Anderson, Stockholm 1912, signed AM (Anna Möcklin).
The decoration was executed by Anna Möcklin. Driven and chiselled relief decoration of different kinds of trees, squirrels, birds, spiders and other insects, rose cut diamonds and rubies. Height 34 cm, diameter at the base 24,5 cm, weight ca 2050 g.
Donour's engraving around the base, lining is missing.
Exhibitions
The same model was included the 1909 exhibition in Stockholm, in the Firma Karl Anderson showroom.
Literature
Barbro Hovstadius, Ann Thorson Walton (ed), 'Ferdinand Boberg - Arkitekten som allkonstnär', Nationalmuseum Stockholm, Exhibition catalogue 601, 1997, pp 92- 93. It says that the exquisite chiselled work with this piece was executed by Ms A Möcklin.