Design 
27 March 2014
Design 
500

Robert King and John Van Koert

Contour coffee service

Towle Silversmiths
USA, 1951 / 1953
sterling silver, composite 10 h × 7½ w × 4 d in (25 × 19 × 10 cm)
estimate: $10,000–15,000
result: $10,160
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Service includes tray, coffee pot, lidded sugar bowl and creamer. Signed with impressed manufacturer's mark to underside: [Towle Sterling] with touchmarks.
literature: Modernism in American Silver: 20th Century Design, Stern, pg. 198 Design 1935-1965: What Modern Was, Eidelberg, ppg. 200-201 Decorative Art 1954-55: The Studio Year Book of Furnishing and Decoration, Holme and Frost, pg. 73

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500