Pair of Carl Poul Petersen sterling silver compotes, Montreal, circa 1940. Each style of Georg Jensen, with a petal hammered bowl and curved handle terminating in foliate buds, supported by four upright leaves with clusters of foliate buds, on a domed circular foot. Measures: 8.0 x 7.5 inches. Weight: 37.20 oz. Petersen was born in Denmark and apprenticed with Georg Jensen. He married one of Jensen’s daughters and later moved to Montreal.
Pair of Carl Poul Petersen sterling silver compotes, Montreal, circa 1940
by Louis Wine€3,000
Pair of Carl Poul Petersen sterling silver compotes, Montreal, circa 1940
Louis Wine
Louis Wine Ltd., Toronto specialists in Antique Silver , Antique Jewellery & Decorative Arts, are a 4th generation family business.Louis Wine (1865-1946) founded the company in Dublin, Ireland in 1880. Louis Wine began selling to silver collectors in Dublin from a shop in historic Wellington Quay. In 1908, he located on Dublin's fashionable Grafton Street. To the firm came the worlds leading Georgian Silver collectors. Pieces by Paul de Lamerie, Paul Storr, Hester Bateman and Irish Georgian Silver were constantly on display. Our gallery run by Richard (Louis Wine's great grandson) at 150 Cumberland Street (Yorkville), Toronto, displays a range of fine Antique Silver, Old Sheffield Plate, Antique Jewellery & Decorative Arts from the 18th-20th century, including Bateman, Storr, Ramsden, Tiffany, Knox, Liberty, Jensen, Christopher Dresser.
