Elegant silver tray, fully gilded. Narrow, rectangular tray with a slightly moulded, smooth mirror. Wide rim decorated all round with an abstract, bark-like pattern. Marked 925, maker's mark of Ferdinand Richard Wilm and "H. J. Wilm Hamburg". Weight approx. 1375 g. 45.2 cm x 23 cm. Ferdinand Richard Wilm (1880-1971) was one of the most important German jewellers of the modern era and a leading member of the Deutscher Werkbund. In 1931/32, he founded the German Society of Goldsmiths with Peter Behrens. He was awarded gold medals at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937 and the Milan Triennale in 1940. Cf. cat. Bröhan-Museum, Metallkunst der Moderne, p. 344 f. An elegant German gilt silver tray. Standard mark 925, maker's mark and "H. J. Wilm Hamburg". German. Hamburg. H. J. Wilm/Ferdinand Richard Wilm. 1950-1960.