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11:00 AM PT - Mar 2nd, 2012
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Georg Jensen Sterling Silver Gilt and Champleve Enamel Annual Spoon, 1971, designed by Rigmor Andersen and Annelise Bjorner, Copenhagen, the plain spatulate handle with white and green champleve enamel cherry blossom, l. 6", 1.47 t. oz., complete with the original Jensen felt storage pouch, packaging and promotional brochures. This was the first of the "Spoon of the Year" annual series introduced by Georg Jensen in 1971. The spoons were designed by the female design partnership of Rigmor Andersen (1903-1995) and Annelise Bjorner (b. 1932) and each year featured a different enameled flower. Andersen had studied under famed furniture designers Kaare Klint and Poul Henningson before becoming an instructor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Furniture; Bjorner graduated from the Academy's School of Architecture in 1952. The two women designed several suites of bedroom furniture in the 1960s, but were best known for the silverware they designed for the marriage of Crown Princess Margrethe in 1967, now known as the "Margrethe" pattern and for which they were awarded the Eckersberg Medal in 1968.
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