For over a century, Georg Jensen has produced some of the finest objects in Scandinavian modern design, including silver tableware, serving pieces, home decor, jewelry and more, frequently partnering with leading artisans to expand its offerings and respond to shifting tastes. Known for minimal aesthetics that reference nature, the craftsmanship of this legendary Danish silverware firm has regularly married function with thoughtful and beautiful design.
Founder Georg Jensen (1866–1935) was born in the small town of Radvaad, Denmark, and began his training as a goldsmith at 14. After studying sculpture and then training with master silversmith Mogens Ballin, he established his own silver business in Copenhagen in 1904. By 1918, the company was successful enough to open a shop in Paris.
Jensen’s firm produced an incredibly vast range of silver objects, from serving dishes and barware to centerpieces and chandeliers. For his early work, which bore ornate floral details and other organic forms of Art Nouveau, Jensen looked to the splendors of the natural world. The 1905 Blossom teapot, for instance, was topped with a magnolia bud and deftly balanced on toad feet, while some of Jensen’s best-known flatware patterns included Lily of the Valley, introduced in 1913, and Acorn, which debuted in 1915.
Collaboration with outside designers, long before such partnerships were common in design, would lead to some of the company’s most popular and enduring work of the mid-century. Sigvard Bernadotte and Vivianna Torun Bülow-Hübe created collections, as did Henning Koppel, whose curvy 1952 Pregnant Duck pitcher is a Georg Jensen classic.
After evolving and expanding throughout the 20th century, Georg Jensen was acquired by Investcorp in 2012. Today, the company is a global luxury brand with more than 1,000 stores around the world. It continues to produce seductive new pieces, such as a tea service made with Marc Newson in 2015, as well as timeless heritage designs, including the relaunch in 2019 of the 1018 solid sterling-silver Tureen 270. In 2020, the firm introduced the Jardinière 1505. Sculptural and richly decorative, the never-before-realized showpiece is hand-hammered from sheets of the finest sterling silver and is based on a 1915 sketch from Jensen’s archives.
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Rare Small Georg Jensen Jardinière 296D
By Georg Jensen
Located in Hellerup, DK
A seldom seen sterling silver Georg Jensen Jardinière, design #296D by Georg Jensen from circa 1919. Unlike the larger versions of this jardinière, the bowl is raised on leaves and a...
Sterling Silver
$2,800
H 7.5 in W 8.5 in D 13.5 in
Rare Majolica Jardinière Squash, Grape and Leaves Wilhelm Schiller & Son
By Wilhelm Schiller & Son
Located in Austin, TX
Rare and unique 19th century Majolica jardinière with squash, grape and leaves signed Ws & S (Wilhelm Schiller & Son).
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
$2,022Sale Price|20% Off
H 20.87 in W 18.31 in D 14.18 in
Very Rare 19th Century Hand Carved Qing Dynasty Chinese Hongmu Jardinière Stand
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning and very rare 19th century hand carved Chinese Qing Dynasty Hongmu stand A very good looking well mad...
Wood
19th Century French Majolica Chesnut Jardinière
Located in Austin, TX
19th Century French Majolica Chesnut attributed to Jardinière.
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
19th Century Majolica Chesnut Jardinière Onnaing
By Onnaing
Located in Austin, TX
19th century Majolica chesnut handled jardinière signed Onnaing. This jardinière is inspired by the Art Nouveau and the Naturalism movement of the end of 19th century.
Majolica, Ceramic, Faience
Large Majolica Swan Jardiniere Foucard Vallauris , circa 1900
By Vallauris
Located in Austin, TX
Large Majolica Swan Jardiniere signed Foucard Vallauris , circa 1900.
Majolica, Ceramic
19th c. Jardiniere
Located in Johns Island, SC
French Jardiniere in Louis XV style and made in the early 19th c. This jardiniere is in excellent condition and made of Kingswood marquetry on pine. The Jardiniere is an elegant plan...
Kingwood, Tulipwood
Majolica Jardiniere
By Holdcroft Pottery
Located in New York, NY
Large Majolica jardinière or planter with flying black bird and white orchid flower on a turquoise ground. Matching underplate has key patter...
Majolica
Cloisonne Jardiniere
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinese cloisonne fish bowl or jardiniere with inlaid bronze figures on rich turquoise ground, raised on carved rosewood stand (7" H x 12.5...
Bronze
Swedish Brass Jardiniere
Located in New York, NY
A jardiniere made in brass with beautiful details and lions heads with twisted ring handles standing on lions feet. Made during the 20th century.
Brass
$1,050
H 22 in W 18 in D 18 in
Antique Roseville Corinthian Pattern Jardiniere Planter Pot & Rare Low Pedestal
By Roseville
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique Roseville Corinthian Pattern Jardiniere Planter and Rare Low Pedestal. Circa Early 20th Century. Measurements: Overall: 22" H x 18" Diameter, Pot: 13" H x 18" Diameter, Base:...
Ceramic
Rare French Wrought Iron 'Birds Nest' Planter Jardiniere
By Jean-Michel Frank
Located in Sharon, CT
A unique French Planter with personality, of abstract form with two baskets, constructed of hand wrought iron and in the original 'garden' green paint.
Wrought Iron
Antique French Art Nouveau Majolica Jardinière
Located in New Orleans, LA
For the serious collector of Art Nouveau, a charming and unique antique French Art Nouveau majolica jardinière with lovely hand painted natural decoration, rolled scalloped edge and ...
Faience, Majolica, Pottery
Jugendstil jardiniere
Located in Hronská Breznica, Banskobystrický kraj
Jugendstil jardiniere stands with metal pads. Professionally stained and repolished.
Metal
Rare Doulton & Co. Antique Jardiniere
By Doulton Lambeth
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
An early Doulton & Co. antique window jardiniere, made in the mid to late 1800s. Stonewares of this design were included in the Doulton & Co. catalogue of 1893 (pictured) as a Mignon...
Terracotta
Rare Pacific Pottery Green and Gold Metallic Jardinière
By Pacific Pottery
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A gorgeous green and metallic gold jardinière (flower pot/planter) done by PPP (signed) the name of Pacific Pottery was famous in the 1950s-1970s for their modern, artistic pottery. ...
Pottery