A Late 19th Century Jugendstil Silvered Champagne Wheel Barrow
£1,250
SOLD
A late 19th century silver-plated Champagne trolley in the form of a wheelbarrow, the body naturalistically worked in the Jugendstil.
The Jugendstil was born in Germany in the 1890s and continued to thrive into the early years of the 1900s. It takes its name from the Munich publication ‘Die Jugend’ (Youth), which made a feature of Art Nouveau. This piece falls into the first phase of the Jugendstil. Prior to 1900, the style is predominantly floral and foliate and found its roots in the English Art Nouveau alongside Japanese applied arts and prints. This preempted a more abstract phase, which emanated from Vienna.
