Silver punchbowl

The precious silver punchbowl is one of the outstanding objects in the holdings of the museum of applied arts. In the Jugendstil era, “applied arts master courses” under the direction of leading designers like Peter Behrens or Richard Riemerschmid resulted in the production of unostentatiously elegant objects that were the antithesis of the prevailing taste for historicism. They were considered to be tremendously modern and often acquired for collections. The award-winning design by Friedrich Adler was executed in 1910 in a Nuremberg goldsmith’s workshop by J.C. Wich and today is one of the department’s central pieces on display.