Jugendstil walking stick, silver with moonstones handle, signed Georg Anton Scheid, Vienna, Austria 1905.

Vienna, Austria 1905.

7000 EURO

Art Nouveau walking stick: T-shaped handle, designed and crafted by Georg Anton Scheid, in silver with moonstone cabochons. A spectacular, well-proportioned Art Nouveau cage composed of wavy, raised bands of polished silver contrast with a delicately hammered dark background. The symmetrical handle, rich in rhythmic movement, is embellished with moonstone cabochons at the front and back, ends, and top. At the end of the handle, integrated under the band, is an eyelet for a wrist strap. Ebony shaft with metal ferrule. Signed Georg Anton Scheid, Vienna, Austria, circa 1905.
Georg Anton Scheid, also known as Georg Adam Scheid (1837–1921), was associated with the Vienna Secession movement, which flourished from 1897 to circa 1905, and later with the Wiener Werkstätte. In his youth, he apprenticed in Stuttgart and Pforzheim, arriving in Vienna in 1858, where he joined the workshop of Michael Markowitsch. In 1882, Scheid founded his own business, G.A. Scheid, which grew to employ three hundred people. Scheid produced his own designs and those of others, including Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffman of the Wiener Werkstätte and the Art Nouveau artist Josef Maria Auchentaller. In 1911, he retired, leaving the business in the hands of his sons.

35” – 89 CM H 3,75” – 8,5 CM L 1,5” – 3,5 CM D

REF: M6213

Art Nouveau walking stick: T-shaped handle, designed and crafted by Georg Anton Scheid, in silver with moonstone cabochons. A spectacular, well-proportioned Art Nouveau cage composed of wavy, raised bands of polished silver contrast with a delicately hammered dark background. The symmetrical handle, rich in rhythmic movement, is embellished with moonstone cabochons at the front and back, ends, and top. At the end of the handle, integrated under the band, is an eyelet for a wrist strap. Ebony shaft with metal ferrule. Signed Georg Anton Scheid, Vienna, Austria, circa 1905. 
Georg Anton Scheid, also known as Georg Adam Scheid (1837–1921), was associated with the Vienna Secession movement, which flourished from 1897 to circa 1905, and later with the Wiener Werkstätte. In his youth, he apprenticed in Stuttgart and Pforzheim, arriving in Vienna in 1858, where he joined the workshop of Michael Markowitsch. In 1882, Scheid founded his own business, G.A. Scheid, which grew to employ three hundred people. Scheid produced his own designs and those of others, including Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffman of the Wiener Werkstätte and the Art Nouveau artist Josef Maria Auchentaller. In 1911, he retired, leaving the business in the hands of his sons.
35” – 89 CM H 3,75” – 8,5 CM L 1,5” – 3,5 CM D
REF: M6213