Austrian vase with lid, decorated with gilding and enamel, height 35.6 cm, Hermann Böhm, Vienna, circa 1885.
Hermann Böhm is an outstanding Hungarian-born silversmith and enameller who worked in Vienna from the end of the 19th century until 1922. Moving to Austria in 1866, he began working as a goldsmith and silversmith for his father-in-law, Ludwig Politzer.
Austrian clock cabinet in silver, enamel, lapis lazuli and ivory, Hermann Böhm, Vienna, circa 1885.
He mainly specialized in the manufacture of vases, interior decorations and exquisite products in the style of the New Renaissance (neo-Renaissance), inspired by the motifs of antiquity. The Neo-Renaissance style was developed in Germany and Austria in the last decades of the 19th century, simultaneously with the growth of national consciousness. The style of that time began to be called historicism, otherwise eclecticism – it did not represent anything fundamentally new, but was the embodiment of all the best that art had absorbed in previous centuries.
Pentahedral silver gilded tower clock decorated with enamel and lapis lazuli, height 42.5 cm, Hermann Böhm, Vienna, circa 1890.
By 1873, Bohm was already considered one of the most prominent Austrian enamellers, and at the International Exhibitions in Vienna and Paris, his products were highly appreciated by the admiring public.
Glass dish in a silver frame, decorated with enamel and precious stones, diameter 31 cm, Hermann Böhm, Vienna, circa 1875.Pentahedral clock tower decorated with gilded silver, enamel and lapis lazuli, height 36 cm, Hermann Böhm, Vienna, circa 1890.Silver tray decorated with lapis lazuli, enamel and precious stones, length 31.8 cm, Hermann Böhm, Vienna, circa 1890.Magnificent pair of historicist style lapis lazuli towers in silver gilt frame with enamelled gilded silver overlays, 1880.Casket made of rock crystal and lapis lazuli in a gilded silver frame, length 15 cm, late 19th century.Small bowl of brown agate in a gilded silver frame with two dragon handles decorated with polychrome enamel, height 12 cm, 1870.Bowl with lid in the form of a rooster made of rock crystal, framed in gilded silver, decorated with enamel and precious stones, height 24 cm, 1875.Jeweled statuette of an ostrich with gilding, lapis lazuli and enamel, height 38 cm, 1880.Table clock in the form of a barrel made of silver with enamel, 1900.Austrian table clock with gilding and enamel, 1890.Enamelled silver box with a lid in the form of a two-headed ostrich with a figure of a Mahout driver, height 35 cm.Two gilded silver vases decorated with painted enamel, Hermann Böhm, Vienna, late 19th century.Painted enamel vase with figured silver handles, painted with scenes of the love affairs of Jupiter, height 43 cm, Hermann Böhm, Vienna, late 19th century.Two silver gilded enamel horns, height 44.5 cm, Hermann Böhm, Vienna, circa 1900.Austrian large pear-shaped silver decanter, decorated with enamel, height 47 cm, Hermann Böhm, Vienna, circa 1880-90.Austrian silver goblet with lid (height 43.5 cm). Cup decorated with gilding and enamel and surmounted by a figure of a page raising the cup, Hermann Böhm, Vienna, circa 1880.Large painted silver enamel vase with griffin handles, height 46.5 cm.Silver tankard decorated with painted enamel, height 32.5 cm, 1880.Large silver vase decorated with painted enamel, height 65 cm, 1880.Silver bowl with a lid, decorated with painted enamel, height 41 cm, 1870-1880.Box with a lid in the form of an ostrich, decorated with painted enamel, height 37.5 cm.Large gilded silver vase with painted enamel on mythological scenes by Hermann Böhm, Vienna, circa 1880.Silver jug and tray, with painted enamel on mythological scenes, 1890.Small gilded silver nave with painted enamel, height 40 cm, 19th century.Silver clock in the shape of a harp, decorated with painted enamel, height 19.5 cm, late 19th century.
