Product Description
Amsterdam School / Art Deco Mirror 1920-25
AMSTERDAM SCHOOL The Netherlands
Mirror 1920-25
Richly patinated gold brown and black hand-wrought copper wave detail, flanges and riveting
For more information on the Amsterdam School see: The Amsterdam School: Dutch Expressionist Architecture, 1915-1930, W. de Wit, ed. (New York: Cooper-Hewitt Museum; Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1983).
H: 17 1/4” x W: 13 1/2”
Price: $5,500
Amsterdam School / Art Deco Mirror 1920-25
Jewellers and Goldsmiths to Queen Victoria. Successors to Mortimer & Hunt on the retirement of John Mortimer but still trading until 1876. Hunt & Roskell, a firm of manufacturing and retail jewellers and silversmiths, was founded by Paul Storr in 1819, trading as Storr & Co. (1819-1822), Storr & Mortimer (1822-1838), Mortimer & Hunt (1838-1843) and then Hunt & Roskell (1843-1897). Hunt & Roskell had retail premises at 156 New Bond Street and a manufactory at 26 Harrison Street, near Clerkenwell. John Samuel Hunt, who had assisted Storr from the start, continued as a partner until his death in 1865. J. S. Hunt was then succeeded by his son, John Hunt (d.1879). Robert Roskell, formerly a watchmaker and merchant of Liverpool, joined in 1844 and remained in the firm until his death in 1888. In 1889 the firm was taken over by J.W. Benson and continued in business as Hunt & Roskell Ltd.
(available individually or as a set of four)
Ring 1: Yellow diamond, 0.74 carats
Ring 2: Brown diamond, 1.29 carats
Ring 3: Grey diamond, 0.83 carats
Ring 4: Grey/purple diamond, 1.42 carats