Ludwig Vierthaler (German, 1875-1967) for Winhart and Co. Secessionist hammered copper bowl or charger with a crustacean crab design mounted with a mother-of-pearl shell detail, apparently unmarked 1.25" H x 11.25" diameter. Note: Ludwig Vierthaler (German, 1875-1967) studied at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich, and studied under Bruno Paul in Berlin. After a period at Tiffany Studios in New York, he returned to his native Germany to become a central figure in the Munich Secession, and his best early design work was for the firm of Winhardt & Co. In 1915, he took a position at the Applied Arts School in Hanover, and became a full professor there in 1921.

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