WMF - Silver Plated Jugendstil Cake Server - Marked Ostrich I/O - Germany, 1910

Antique cake scoop in Jugendstil, designed and produced around 1910. The scoop is made in the "Pyramide" pattern, which was designed in the same year in the WMF Art Studio. The German Jugendstil is strongly present here, and the design already tends towards the geometry of the Art Deco style. The round end of the handle with a stepped motif that returns on the front and back of the blade.

In excellent condition. Original storage box in good condition.

Marked on the back of the handle with [Ostrich in diamond][WMF][I/O].

This cake server makes a wonderful gift for a wedding, for a collector or as a business gift.

At the turn of the 20th century, the German WMF (Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik) - with its factory in Geislingen an der Steige - had acquired a worldwide leading position as a producer of household metal products. With designer Albert Mayer at the helm as director and head of the WMF Art Studio, the company made a name for itself manufacturing items in Jugendstil. When this style gradually fell out of favor after the First World War, the company was quick to pick up on the new influences, maintaining a leading position in silverware in Germany well into the 1960's.