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Materials:

silver, ebony

Size Notes:

teapot; coffee maker: 16cm; sugar bowl: 6cm; milk jug: 6cm; tray: 2.5 x 50 x 39cm; weight: 2888g

Description:

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Markings:

Marked "Schaerer 835"

Exhibited:

universelle de Barcelone de 1929 où elle remporta un vif succès avec ses objets en argent. Paula Strauss meurt en 1943 à Auschwitz. A coffee and tea silver service, with ebony handles, made by Paula Strauss around 1930, comprising - a teapot, H 5,12 inch - a coffee maker, H 6,30 inch - a sugar bowl, H 2,36 inch - a milk jug, H 2,36 inch - a plate 0,98 x 19,68 x 11,35 inch Each pieces marked « Schaerer 835 ». Hallmarks. Gross weight (minus plate) around 101,47 oz History Trained at the School of Applied Arts in Stuttgart and members of Hermann Muthesius' "Deutscher Werkbund", Paula Strauss is one of the first female designers. Working for the silversmith Peter Bruckmann between 1925 to 1933, then for the Württembergische Metallwaren-Fabrik (WMF), she participated in several international exhibitions including the 1929 World's Fair in Barcelona where she was very successful with her silver objects . Paula Strauss died in 1943 in Auschwitz.