Silver, jade

H  2.60cm (1.02 in)  |  W  3.20cm (1.26 in)

A rare Patriz Huber Jugendstil brooch for Theodor Fahrner & Murrle Bennett & Co.
A very successful example of one of Huber's masterly abstract designs applied to an Aztec mask.

Literature
Illustrated in our book:
Beatriz Chadour-Sampson & Sonya Newell-Smith, Tadema Gallery London Jewellery from the 1860s to 1960s, Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart 2021, cat. no. 256
cf. Theodor Fahrner Schmuck, Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, 1990, p. 104, fig. 1.60
Patriz Huber, Ein Mitglied der Darmstadter Kunstlerkolonie Ateliers im Museum Kunstlerkolonie Darmstadt Matildenhohe, Darmstadt, 1992, about Huber

Ref No   4540

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