Austrian silver plate, Vienna silversmith Alexander Sturm, beggining of the XX century.

decorated with rose in the center of the plate 11 x 11 cm (72g). In 1882, Alexander Sturm, a trained gold- and silversmith, founded what is today Wiener Silber Manufactur in Vienna. By the turn of the century the silversmiths created objects for the intellectual elite that favored the simple lines of the Wiener Werkstatte.