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Karl Berthold Symbolist brooch.
Carved shell cameo mounted in silver.
W 5.40 cm (2.13 in) | L 4.80 cm (1.89 in).
Origin: German, 1919.
Marks: Maker's monogram & '900' Dated 1919.
Case: Fitted Case.
Condition: Very good.
Weight: 19.60 Grams.
An exceptional Symbolist cameo brooch of Venus surrounded by the horn of plenty by the goldsmith Karl Berthold & his painter wife Maria Schmidt-Kugel. Karl Berthold (1889-1975) came from a family of goldsmiths in Bavaria where he was first trained.
He became a teacher for goldsmithing at the Staatliche Zeichenakademie in Hanau and Werkkunstschule in Cologne. After the war his atelier was in the Carmelite Cloisters in Reisach, Upper Bavaria (1945-1951) and later Oberaudorf/Inn.
His designs are inspired by Renaissance and Baroque art.
Literature:
cf. Schmuck in Deutschland und Osterreich 1895-1914, Ulrike von Hase 1977, p. 172.
Schmuck der 20er und 30er Jahre in Deutschland Christianne Weber, 1990, pp.134-136 & 368.
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