{"product_id":"georg-jensen-antik-sterling-soelv-sildegaffel-no-79","title":"Georg Jensen Continental Sterling Silver and Stainless Steel Herring Fork No 79","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"description\"\u003eGeorg Jensen Continental Sterling Silver and Stainless Steel Herring Fork No 79. Measures 17 cm \/ 6 11\/16 in.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cp trebuchet=\"\" ms\",=\"\" \"helvetica=\"\" neue\",=\"\" helvetica,=\"\" tahoma,=\"\" sans-serif;=\"\" font-size:=\"\" 14px;=\"\" font-style:=\"\" normal;=\"\" font-variant-ligatures:=\"\" font-variant-caps:=\"\" font-weight:=\"\" 400;=\"\" letter-spacing:=\"\" 0.14994px;=\"\" orphans:=\"\" 2;=\"\" text-align:=\"\" start;=\"\" text-indent:=\"\" 0px;=\"\" text-transform:=\"\" none;=\"\" white-space:=\"\" widows:=\"\" word-spacing:=\"\" -webkit-text-stroke-width:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" rgb(255,=\"\" 255,=\"\" 255);=\"\" text-decoration-thickness:=\"\" initial;=\"\" text-decoration-style:=\"\" text-decoration-color:=\"\" initial;\"=\"\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: \u0026quot;Trebuchet MS\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.14994px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\"\u003eDesigned in 1906 by Georg Jensen (1866-1935).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp trebuchet=\"\" ms\",=\"\" \"helvetica=\"\" neue\",=\"\" helvetica,=\"\" tahoma,=\"\" sans-serif;=\"\" font-size:=\"\" 14px;=\"\" font-style:=\"\" normal;=\"\" font-variant-ligatures:=\"\" font-variant-caps:=\"\" font-weight:=\"\" 400;=\"\" letter-spacing:=\"\" 0.14994px;=\"\" orphans:=\"\" 2;=\"\" text-align:=\"\" start;=\"\" text-indent:=\"\" 0px;=\"\" text-transform:=\"\" none;=\"\" white-space:=\"\" widows:=\"\" word-spacing:=\"\" -webkit-text-stroke-width:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" rgb(255,=\"\" 255,=\"\" 255);=\"\" text-decoration-thickness:=\"\" initial;=\"\" text-decoration-style:=\"\" text-decoration-color:=\"\" initial;\"=\"\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: \u0026quot;Trebuchet MS\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.14994px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\"\u003eGeorg Jensen was a world-famous silversmith who created silver products of the highest artistic and craftsmanship quality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp trebuchet=\"\" ms\",=\"\" \"helvetica=\"\" neue\",=\"\" helvetica,=\"\" tahoma,=\"\" sans-serif;=\"\" font-size:=\"\" 14px;=\"\" font-style:=\"\" normal;=\"\" font-variant-ligatures:=\"\" font-variant-caps:=\"\" font-weight:=\"\" 400;=\"\" letter-spacing:=\"\" 0.14994px;=\"\" orphans:=\"\" 2;=\"\" text-align:=\"\" start;=\"\" text-indent:=\"\" 0px;=\"\" text-transform:=\"\" none;=\"\" white-space:=\"\" widows:=\"\" word-spacing:=\"\" -webkit-text-stroke-width:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" rgb(255,=\"\" 255,=\"\" 255);=\"\" text-decoration-thickness:=\"\" initial;=\"\" text-decoration-style:=\"\" text-decoration-color:=\"\" initial;\"=\"\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: \u0026quot;Trebuchet MS\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.14994px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\"\u003eHis company has had over 90 designers over the years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp trebuchet=\"\" ms\",=\"\" \"helvetica=\"\" neue\",=\"\" helvetica,=\"\" tahoma,=\"\" sans-serif;=\"\" font-size:=\"\" 14px;=\"\" font-style:=\"\" normal;=\"\" font-variant-ligatures:=\"\" font-variant-caps:=\"\" font-weight:=\"\" 400;=\"\" letter-spacing:=\"\" 0.14994px;=\"\" orphans:=\"\" 2;=\"\" text-align:=\"\" start;=\"\" text-indent:=\"\" 0px;=\"\" text-transform:=\"\" none;=\"\" white-space:=\"\" widows:=\"\" word-spacing:=\"\" -webkit-text-stroke-width:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" rgb(255,=\"\" 255,=\"\" 255);=\"\" text-decoration-thickness:=\"\" initial;=\"\" text-decoration-style:=\"\" text-decoration-color:=\"\" initial;\"=\"\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: \u0026quot;Trebuchet MS\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.14994px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\"\u003eJensen was very artistic as a child and when he was 14, his family moved to Copenhagen so he could be apprenticed to a goldsmith. However, he wanted to become a sculptor, so he was accepted as a sculpture student at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, from which he graduated in 1892 at the age of 25.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp trebuchet=\"\" ms\",=\"\" \"helvetica=\"\" neue\",=\"\" helvetica,=\"\" tahoma,=\"\" sans-serif;=\"\" font-size:=\"\" 14px;=\"\" font-style:=\"\" normal;=\"\" font-variant-ligatures:=\"\" font-variant-caps:=\"\" font-weight:=\"\" 400;=\"\" letter-spacing:=\"\" 0.14994px;=\"\" orphans:=\"\" 2;=\"\" text-align:=\"\" start;=\"\" text-indent:=\"\" 0px;=\"\" text-transform:=\"\" none;=\"\" white-space:=\"\" widows:=\"\" word-spacing:=\"\" -webkit-text-stroke-width:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" rgb(255,=\"\" 255,=\"\" 255);=\"\" text-decoration-thickness:=\"\" initial;=\"\" text-decoration-style:=\"\" text-decoration-color:=\"\" initial;\"=\"\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: \u0026quot;Trebuchet MS\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.14994px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\"\u003eIn the following years, he met Johan Rohde, a painter, designer, sculptor, writer and architect who, together with Joakim Skovgaard, had founded the Free Exhibition, where Jensen was offered the opportunity to exhibit his sculpture, which had been rejected at the Charlottenborg Exhibition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp trebuchet=\"\" ms\",=\"\" \"helvetica=\"\" neue\",=\"\" helvetica,=\"\" tahoma,=\"\" sans-serif;=\"\" font-size:=\"\" 14px;=\"\" font-style:=\"\" normal;=\"\" font-variant-ligatures:=\"\" font-variant-caps:=\"\" font-weight:=\"\" 400;=\"\" letter-spacing:=\"\" 0.14994px;=\"\" orphans:=\"\" 2;=\"\" text-align:=\"\" start;=\"\" text-indent:=\"\" 0px;=\"\" text-transform:=\"\" none;=\"\" white-space:=\"\" widows:=\"\" word-spacing:=\"\" -webkit-text-stroke-width:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" rgb(255,=\"\" 255,=\"\" 255);=\"\" text-decoration-thickness:=\"\" initial;=\"\" text-decoration-style:=\"\" text-decoration-color:=\"\" initial;\"=\"\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: \u0026quot;Trebuchet MS\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.14994px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\"\u003eJensen received a travel grant from the Danish Academy. He was inspired by the Art Nouveau style, which fused beauty and utility. He decided to combine beauty and practicality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp trebuchet=\"\" ms\",=\"\" \"helvetica=\"\" neue\",=\"\" helvetica,=\"\" tahoma,=\"\" sans-serif;=\"\" font-size:=\"\" 14px;=\"\" font-style:=\"\" normal;=\"\" font-variant-ligatures:=\"\" font-variant-caps:=\"\" font-weight:=\"\" 400;=\"\" letter-spacing:=\"\" 0.14994px;=\"\" orphans:=\"\" 2;=\"\" text-align:=\"\" start;=\"\" text-indent:=\"\" 0px;=\"\" text-transform:=\"\" none;=\"\" white-space:=\"\" widows:=\"\" word-spacing:=\"\" -webkit-text-stroke-width:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" rgb(255,=\"\" 255,=\"\" 255);=\"\" text-decoration-thickness:=\"\" initial;=\"\" text-decoration-style:=\"\" text-decoration-color:=\"\" initial;\"=\"\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: \u0026quot;Trebuchet MS\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.14994px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\"\u003eJensen took a job with Mogens Ballin, a Danish Art Nouveau artist. Ballin allowed the artists who worked for him to exhibit their work under their own names and he commissioned Jensen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp trebuchet=\"\" ms\",=\"\" \"helvetica=\"\" neue\",=\"\" helvetica,=\"\" tahoma,=\"\" sans-serif;=\"\" font-size:=\"\" 14px;=\"\" font-style:=\"\" normal;=\"\" font-variant-ligatures:=\"\" font-variant-caps:=\"\" font-weight:=\"\" 400;=\"\" letter-spacing:=\"\" 0.14994px;=\"\" orphans:=\"\" 2;=\"\" text-align:=\"\" start;=\"\" text-indent:=\"\" 0px;=\"\" text-transform:=\"\" none;=\"\" white-space:=\"\" widows:=\"\" word-spacing:=\"\" -webkit-text-stroke-width:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" rgb(255,=\"\" 255,=\"\" 255);=\"\" text-decoration-thickness:=\"\" initial;=\"\" text-decoration-style:=\"\" text-decoration-color:=\"\" initial;\"=\"\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: \u0026quot;Trebuchet MS\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.14994px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\"\u003eIn 1904 Jensen decided to open his own silver shop. He dealt with jewellery as it required a small investment. In the same year, he exhibited for the first time as an independent silversmith at the Kunstindustrimuseet in Copenhagen, which was a success that could be felt in the workshop, where sales grew steadily.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp trebuchet=\"\" ms\",=\"\" \"helvetica=\"\" neue\",=\"\" helvetica,=\"\" tahoma,=\"\" sans-serif;=\"\" font-size:=\"\" 14px;=\"\" font-style:=\"\" normal;=\"\" font-variant-ligatures:=\"\" font-variant-caps:=\"\" font-weight:=\"\" 400;=\"\" letter-spacing:=\"\" 0.14994px;=\"\" orphans:=\"\" 2;=\"\" text-align:=\"\" start;=\"\" text-indent:=\"\" 0px;=\"\" text-transform:=\"\" none;=\"\" white-space:=\"\" widows:=\"\" word-spacing:=\"\" -webkit-text-stroke-width:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" rgb(255,=\"\" 255,=\"\" 255);=\"\" text-decoration-thickness:=\"\" initial;=\"\" text-decoration-style:=\"\" text-decoration-color:=\"\" initial;\"=\"\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: \u0026quot;Trebuchet MS\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.14994px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\"\u003eHis success with jewellery led him to make corpus. He made a teapot with the well-known flower motif \"Magnolia\", which became the prototype for an entire tea\/coffee set.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp trebuchet=\"\" ms\",=\"\" \"helvetica=\"\" neue\",=\"\" helvetica,=\"\" tahoma,=\"\" sans-serif;=\"\" font-size:=\"\" 14px;=\"\" font-style:=\"\" normal;=\"\" font-variant-ligatures:=\"\" font-variant-caps:=\"\" font-weight:=\"\" 400;=\"\" letter-spacing:=\"\" 0.14994px;=\"\" orphans:=\"\" 2;=\"\" text-align:=\"\" start;=\"\" text-indent:=\"\" 0px;=\"\" text-transform:=\"\" none;=\"\" white-space:=\"\" widows:=\"\" word-spacing:=\"\" -webkit-text-stroke-width:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" rgb(255,=\"\" 255,=\"\" 255);=\"\" text-decoration-thickness:=\"\" initial;=\"\" text-decoration-style:=\"\" text-decoration-color:=\"\" initial;\"=\"\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: \u0026quot;Trebuchet MS\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.14994px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\"\u003e1916 the company GEORG JENSEN SØLVSMEDIE A\/S was founded\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp trebuchet=\"\" ms\",=\"\" \"helvetica=\"\" neue\",=\"\" helvetica,=\"\" tahoma,=\"\" sans-serif;=\"\" font-size:=\"\" 14px;=\"\" font-style:=\"\" normal;=\"\" font-variant-ligatures:=\"\" font-variant-caps:=\"\" font-weight:=\"\" 400;=\"\" letter-spacing:=\"\" 0.14994px;=\"\" orphans:=\"\" 2;=\"\" text-align:=\"\" start;=\"\" text-indent:=\"\" 0px;=\"\" text-transform:=\"\" none;=\"\" white-space:=\"\" widows:=\"\" word-spacing:=\"\" -webkit-text-stroke-width:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" rgb(255,=\"\" 255,=\"\" 255);=\"\" text-decoration-thickness:=\"\" initial;=\"\" text-decoration-style:=\"\" text-decoration-color:=\"\" initial;\"=\"\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: \u0026quot;Trebuchet MS\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.14994px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\"\u003eHe won the Grand Prix at the World's Fair in 1927, 1929, 1932 and 1935.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp trebuchet=\"\" ms\",=\"\" \"helvetica=\"\" neue\",=\"\" helvetica,=\"\" tahoma,=\"\" sans-serif;=\"\" font-size:=\"\" 14px;=\"\" font-style:=\"\" normal;=\"\" font-variant-ligatures:=\"\" font-variant-caps:=\"\" font-weight:=\"\" 400;=\"\" letter-spacing:=\"\" 0.14994px;=\"\" orphans:=\"\" 2;=\"\" text-align:=\"\" start;=\"\" text-indent:=\"\" 0px;=\"\" text-transform:=\"\" none;=\"\" white-space:=\"\" widows:=\"\" word-spacing:=\"\" -webkit-text-stroke-width:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" rgb(255,=\"\" 255,=\"\" 255);=\"\" text-decoration-thickness:=\"\" initial;=\"\" text-decoration-style:=\"\" text-decoration-color:=\"\" initial;\"=\"\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: \u0026quot;Trebuchet MS\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.14994px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\"\u003eGeorg Jensen had five children and died in 1935 at the age of 69.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr class=\"Apple-interchange-newline\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Georg Jensen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33228762906733,"sku":"297951","price":0.0,"currency_code":"DKK","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0279\/2118\/6925\/files\/current1_georg-jensen-antik-sterling-solv-sildegaffel-no-79-danam-antik-1.jpg?v=1751070908","url":"https:\/\/www.danam-antique.com\/en\/products\/georg-jensen-antik-sterling-soelv-sildegaffel-no-79","provider":"Danam Antik","version":"1.0","type":"link"}