Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu

A pair of Danish silver earrings, by Hans Hansen, the drops composed of polished convex segmented discs, suspended beneath matching segment surmounts, stamped ‘925 S’ and bearing Danish assay marks and maker’s mark ‘HaH’, to later post fittings, diameter 48mm. £60-£80

The Scandinavian modernist jewellers Hans Hansen, was founded in 1906 in Denmark. The founder Hans Hansen (1884-1940) made mostly holloware until he was successful enough to take a chance with starting a line of jewellery. In 1932 he asked his son and apprentice Karl Gustav (1914-2002) to design a line for him called  ’Future’. This range was popular throughout the 1930s and 1940s, sometimes referred to as ‘Funkis’ (for Funky functionalism).

Hansen had exhibitions of work at the 1937 International Expo in Paris, and at the World Fair in New York in 1939. The firm also exhibited at the Nordisk Handcraft Exhibit in Paris in 1958 and 1965, and also in London, in 1958, at the Danish Design Show at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The Hans Hansen firm was taken over in 1991 by Royal Copenhagen who also acquired Georg Jensen.