Lot 42: NAUM SLUTZKY

PROPERTY OF FRAU ELIS MÜLLER
AN IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE TEAPOT
engraved M and impressed with the designer's cipher
silver-plated metal, rosewood and ebony
6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm) high
circa 1928
Produced by the Bauhaus Metal Workshop

Naum Slutzky, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, May 11-July 2, 1995

Erika Billeter, Die Zwanziger Jahre Kontraste Eines Jahrzehnts, Zurich, 1973, p. 88 (for the model in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum)
Monika Rudolph, Naum Slutzky, Meister am Bauhaus Goldschmied und Designer, Stuttgart, 1990, p. 169 (for the model in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum)
Klaus Weber, ed. Die Metallwerkstatt am Bauhaus, Berlin, 1992, p. 268 (for the model in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum)
Christopher Wilk, ed. Modernism 1914-1939: Designing a New World, London, 2006, pp. 220-221 (for the model in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum)

Acquired from the designer by Fritz Schleiffer, circa 1930
Thence by descent to the present owner