A three pieces silver coffee service, Denmark (active 1893-1937).
Coffee pot, creamer and sugar bowl, rectangular model with beveled corners and handles in hard wood. Swedish import marks. Height 5-18 cm. Total weight approximately 1120 g.
The company Cohr was originally founded in 1860 by Ditlev Madsen Cohr, but it was under Carl M. Cohr's leadership that the business flourished and established itself as a pioneer in the skønvirke style (the Danish equivalent of Art Nouveau). Carl M. Cohr (1860–1925) took over his father's silver workshop in 1893 in Fredericia and was a prominent Danish silversmith and designer.
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