{"product_id":"hagenauer-parrot-sugar-tongs-austria-c-1925","title":"Hagenauer Parrot Sugar Tongs - Austria, c.1920","description":"\u003cp\u003eA genuinely rare piece from Hagenauer's Vienna workshop, these sugar tongs are shaped as a highly stylized parrot, most likely designed by Karl Hagenauer himself. The bird's form is reduced to its most essential lines, a crested head with a long, serrated beak forming the gripping ends, and a looping tail curling back into the handle, a hallmark of the workshop's confident, modernist approach to animal subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis example is well documented, appearing on Hagenauer's own official archive, which identifies the design specifically as a parrot. The piece is correctly marked on the underside of the base with the impressed \"Hagenauer Wien\" and \"Made in Austria\" stamps, details that serious collectors will want to look for when authenticating similar pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExecuted in brass with nickel plating, the tongs date to the 1920s or 1930s, the height of Hagenauer's most celebrated design period. Measuring 5.75 x 3 x 1\", the piece has genuine sculptural presence well beyond its function, equally at home serving sugar cubes at a formal table or displayed on its own as a small work of Viennese modernist design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA significant find for collectors of Hagenauer or Austrian design of this period, this piece rewards close study of its documented history as much as its striking form.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Karl Hagenauer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50164215939210,"sku":null,"price":930.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0639\/1247\/6810\/files\/Hagenauer_Parrot_Sugar_Tongs_-_Austria_c.1920_5.jpg?v=1790380480","url":"https:\/\/collectorsgene.com\/products\/hagenauer-parrot-sugar-tongs-austria-c-1925","provider":"Collectors Gene","version":"1.0","type":"link"}