Gustav Klimt Water Serpents Silk Tie Flatware Glass: sapphire crystal Case: Stainless

Glass: sapphire crystal Case: Stainless steel with screwed back

The Metropolitan Museum’s elegant scarf is inspired by the John Henry Dearle (British

000 to $10

20” in height

Dimensions: 16" square

Gustav Klimt Water Serpents Silk Tie Flatware Glass: sapphire crystal Case: StainlessThe Gustav Klimt Water Serpents Silk Tie features elements from the painting Wasserschlangen II (in English Water Serpents II) by the Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt (1862 1918). The painting has had a colorful history. It was originally commissioned for Jenny Steiner, the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, and after the death of her husband Gebrder Steiner, was herself the director of a silk manufacturing company. Under the Anschluss of