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View full screenSilver cigarette case with lid decorated in green translucent enamel, entitled Föhn (meaning 'warm wind' or 'spring storm', printed in brown in the art magazine Ver Sacrum in February 1899: Austrian, Vienna, by firm of Georg Adam Scheid, early 20th century
A.1993.52
Georg Adam Scheid, 1882 - 1962, Silversmith
Vienna, Austria, Western Europe
Moser, Koloman, 1868 - 1918, Designer
Vienna, Austria, Western Europe
Early 20th century
Silver decorated in green translucent enamel
Design for Living (08 Jul 2016)
National Museum of Scotland
For Scheid’s see W. Neuwirth, Lexicon Wiener Gold- und Silberschmiede und ihre Purzes 1867 - 1922 (Vienna, 1977) Vol. 2, pp. 178-181
Ver Sacrum: Organ der Vereinigung Bildender Kuenstler Osterreichs, Vienna, 1899, Vol II, Part IV, p. 30, copy in the National Art library, V&A, at pp. 74 A (with 1889 incorrectly on the spine)
Werner Fenz, Koloman Moser, Graphik, Kunstgewerbe, Malerei (Salzburg and Vienna, 1984), p. 150
Haslam, In the Art Nouveau Style (London, 1989), p. 99
Ver Sacrum: Muttheilungen der Vereinigung Bildender Kunstler Osterreichs, Vienna, 1901, Vol. IV, pp. 143-146
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