(143) Piece Georg Jensen Acorn Pattern Sterling Silver Flatware Set - Gross 146.030 ozt. All marked on the undersides. 

Longest Size: 9 1/4 in. 

Gross Weight: 146.030 ozt. 

After graduating from the Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1892, Georg Jensen (1866-1935) began in clay sculpture and porcelain modeling at Bing & Grøndahl before opening his own pottery shop in 1898, then shifting to silversmithing under Mogens Ballin. In 1904 he founded his silversmithy in Copenhagen, Georg Jensen A/S, expanding to Berlin in 1909. Wartime difficulties in 1917 led industrialist Peder Anders Pedersen and Jensen’s brother-in-law Thorolf Møller to invest, with Pedersen becoming chairman. Jensen attempted a separate Paris venture in 1925, which failed, but he continued as creative consultant until his death. Pedersen’s son, Anders Hostrup-Pedersen, expanded the brand in America with Frederik Lunning and recruited notable Danish artists like Sigvard Bernadotte, Henning Koppel, and Nanna Ditzel, alongside Jensen’s son, Søren Georg Jensen. In 1972 Royal Copenhagen acquired the company and merged it into the Royal Scandinavia Group, which was later sold to Axcel Capital Partners in 2001, then to Investcorp in 2012, and finally purchased by Finnish consumer goods company Fiskars in 2023, with production still at the original Copenhagen factory.

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