Pitcher
Johan Rohde
1920
- Medium
- Silver, ivory
- Dimensions
- 11 1/4 x 8 x 5 1/2 in. (28.58 x 20.32 x 13.97 cm)
- Genre
- Metalwork
Tags
Denmark
About
The use of ivory in handles of silver vessels and containers as an insulator against heat is several centuries old, but Johan Rohde integrated this material into a very modernist, twentieth-century Scandinavian design.
