Sailing Cup by Kay Fisker Silver. Hexagonal body with reinforced lip rim. One of the walled fields with the applied silhouette of a sailboat after a drawing by Arne Bang. Opposite two fields depicting a seagull over a flower; in between five facsimile signatures, including those of Evald Nielsen. Brands: BZ Copenhagen for 1929, 925S, Guardeinmarke, manufacturer brand Michelsen (Hofjuwelier from 1848), KAY FISKER, date stamp 1929. H 14 cm, weight 281 g. Copenhagen, Anton Michelsen, design Kay Fisker, decor Arne Bang, 1929. "With Kay Fisker, innovation came at smaller sports prizes. Here reacted to the factory-made, thin cups. The small, 10 cm high, massive cups by Kay Fisker could be adapted to the different sports by changing the decoration. (Lise Funder, Dansk Sølv 20. århundrede. Copenhagen 1999, p. 95.) Provenance: German private collection. Exhibitions: A similar hexagonal silver work, funnel-shaped, was shown at the Leipziger Ausstellung Europäische Kunstgewerbe 1927 (German Art and Decoration, Volume 60, 1927, p. 342). Literature: Pictured by Ole Wanscher, A. Michelsen og Dansk Sølvsmedkunst 1841 - 1941, Copenhagen 1941, p. 100. See also Lise Funder, Dansk Sølv 20. århundrede. Copenhagen 1999, p. 95, fig. 104 (fig. of a slightly smaller variant each).