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A mid-century silver pie server with a heart-shaped blade and the handle end cut as the letter …
Pie Server
A mid-century silver pie server with a heart-shaped blade and the handle end cut as the letter …
A mid-century silver pie server with a heart-shaped blade and the handle end cut as the letter "M".
Pie Server, Maria Regnier, c. 1958, silver, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia.

Pie Server

Maker (American, 1901 - 1994)
Datec. 1958
Mediumsilver
Dimensions3 1/4 × 12 inches (8.3 × 30.5 cm)
MarkingsMarks on the handle back: STERLING / MR [conjoined, in rectangle]
Credit LineGift of Billy K. Poole in Memory of Milton Mazo, M.D.
Object number2010.25
On View
On view
CopyrightThe images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextBorn in Hungary, raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and educated at Washington University in St. Louis and the Rhode Island School of Design, modern silversmith Maria Regnier moved to Savannah in 1957 after Mary and H. Hansell Hillyer invited her to live and operate a studio at their new development at Trustees’ Garden in the historic district. By 1959, her work-studio was at 14 East Macon Street. Regnier received several commissions from Savannahians, and the “M” at the end of this handle is for Dr. Milton Mazo. Regnier married Warren Krimmel and moved to her husband’s home in Arkansas in 1961. Maria Regnier (1901-1994), a Hungarian-born silversmith whose work is marked by its sleek minimalist beauty, came to the United States in 1921 and studied at the Rhode Island School of Design. She maintained a thriving studio practice combining modern style and handcrafted techniques in jewelry and metal housewares beginning in the 1930s in St. Louis and then in other US cities. She lived and worked in Savannah from 1957 to 1961, and period newspapers note her making silver objects for Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters, possibly for gift shop in the house museum’s early years.
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