Featured Decorative Arts Object – Silver Bowl

Object Name: Bowl

Artist: Clemens Friedell, Pasadena, CA (1872-1963)

Date: c. 1915

Material: Silver

Dimensions: H: 5.75 in , D: 10.25 in

Collection: Fenyes-Curtin-Paloheimo

Object ID: 2008.004.001

Credit Line: Gift of The Y.A. and Leonora Curtin Paloheimo Trust

Notes: Eva Scott Fenyes commissioned this silver bowl and its matching stand from Pasadena silversmith Clemens Friedell. Before moving to California in 1910, Friedell worked as a chaser at the Gorham factory in Providence, Rhode Island. His shop in Pasadena was located among the fashionable pergola shops at the Hotel Maryland.